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Tauhid and Monotheism

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Tauhid and Monotheism 

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Islam is a monotheistic religion in its unique definition of Tauhid. Monotheism is a very broad term when it comes to its description of one God.

Christianity, for example, is viewed as a monotheistic religion even though trinity is part of its faith. The Trinity as the Christian doctrine is defined to mean that God is one being, eternally existing as three co-equal, co-eternal persons: the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit. In Islamic terminology, Trinity is not Tauhid, but a form of Shirk. 

 

Jehovah’s Witnesses are also believed to be a monotheistic religion. However, even their belief does not fit into Tauhid. That is because Jehovah's Witnesses believe Jesus is God's "only begotten" Son and the first of all creation, but not co-equal or co-eternal with the Father. They identify him as the archangel Michael in his pre-human and post-resurrection spiritual form. 

 

Wikipedia defines monotheism as follows: “Monotheism is the belief that one God is the only, or at least the dominant deity. A distinction may be made between exclusive monotheism, in which the one God is a singular existence, and both inclusive and pluriform monotheism, in which multiple gods or godly forms are recognized, but each are postulated as extensions of the same God.”  

This definition of Monotheism mixes its terminology of belief in one God with Shirk, and is therefore not the same as Tauhid.

 

So, what is Tauhid, as an Islamic term? 

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Six Qualities of the Truly Successful

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Six Qualities of the Truly Successful

There are many places in the Holy Quran, where the verses speak about the attributes of the ones who want success in this life and the hereafter. The first such place is in Surah Al-Baqarah, the second chapter.

The six qualities mentioned in these verses are:

1. Accept the Holy Quran as the Book of guidance as a God-conscious person
2. Belief in the unseen
3. Offer and establish prayer
4. Spend in the way of Allah from what He has given
5. Believe in the Holy Quran and the divine books sent to earlier Prophets of God
6. Believe in the After Life.

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Competing in Sin

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If there is a phrase that can describe the world today, it has to be "Competing in Sin!"

Many Muslim governments, groups and individuals have taken an un-Islamic path and are trying to do what non-Muslim governments, groups and individuals are doing. It is a competition in sin and Muslims are losing. About fourteen hundred years ago, one of the most beloved person of the Muslim ummah, Umar bin Abdul Aziz wrote a letter to a military commander and said:

Sin is even more dangerous than the ruses/tricks of the enemy. Amirul-Momineen bids upon Mansur that instead of taking fright of his enemy, he should fear transgressing the limits of Allah T’ala. We overcome our enemies in the battlefield only because of their vices and sins, for, had it not been so, we would not have had the courage to face them. We can not deploy troops in the same numbers as our enemies can do, nor do we possess the equipments they have got. Thus, if we equate ourselves with our enemies in misdeeds and transgressions, they would undoubtedly gain a victory over us by virtue of their numerical superiority and strength.  

Competing in Sin!

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