Tawhid | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-17

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00:03:09 1 Etymology
00:03:53 2 Name of God in Islam
00:05:01 3 iShirk/i
00:06:09 4 Discerning the unity of God
00:08:23 5 Arguments for the oneness of God
00:08:34 5.1 Theological
00:09:20 5.2 God as the cause of causes
00:11:14 5.3 God as the necessary existent
00:13:53 5.4 Indivisibility of God's sovereignty
00:15:05 5.5 Other arguments
00:16:51 6 Interpretations
00:17:25 6.1 Textualistic approach
00:18:59 6.2 Theological viewpoints
00:20:15 6.2.1 Mu'tazili school
00:22:04 6.2.2 Ash'ari school
00:23:19 6.2.3 Twelvers theology
00:25:09 6.3 Philosophical viewpoints
00:25:55 6.4 Sufi and Irfani viewpoint
00:27:53 6.4.1 Annihilation and subsistence
00:28:53 6.4.2 Unity of existence
00:31:09 7 Opposition to democracy
00:31:33 8 Influences on the Muslim culture
00:32:11 8.1 Interpersonal relationship
00:32:49 8.2 Good and evil
00:34:02 8.3 Secularism
00:35:34 8.4 Islamic art



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Tawhid (Arabic: توحيد‎ tawḥīd, meaning "oneness [of God]" also romanized as tawheed, touheed, or tevhid) is the indivisible oneness concept of monotheism in Islam. Tawhid is the religion's central and single-most important concept, upon which a Muslim's entire faith rests. It unequivocally holds that God is One (Al-ʾAḥad) and Single (Al-Wāḥid); therefore, the Islamic belief in God is considered Unitarian."Tawhid constitutes the foremost article of the Muslim profession of faith. The first part of the shahada (the Islamic declaration of faith) is the declaration of belief in the oneness of God. To attribute divinity to anything or anyone else, is shirk - an unpardonable sin according to the Qur'an, if repentance is not sought afterwards. Muslims believe that the entirety of the Islamic teaching rests on the principle of Tawhid.There is an uncompromising monotheism at the heart of the Islamic beliefs (aqidah) which is seen, from an Islamic standpoint, as distinguishing Islam from other major religions. However, Tawhid is analogous to the monotheistic concept of God in Judaism, as declared in the Shema Yisrael, the Jewish declaration of faith. Tawhid is also analogous to Christian Unitarianism adhered to by a minority of Christian denominations which reject a trinitarian position of God in Christianity, which is in contrast to most Christian faiths that ascribe to the Trinity (God as three persons in one being; the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). Further Tawhid requires Muslims not only to avoid worshiping multiple gods, but also to relinquish striving for money, social status or egoism.The Qur'an asserts the existence of a single and absolute truth that transcends the world; a unique, independent and indivisible being, who is independent of the entire creation. God, according to Islam, is a universal God, rather than a local, tribal, or parochial one—God is an absolute, who integrates all affirmative values and brooks no evil.Islamic intellectual history can be understood as a gradual unfolding of the manner in which successive generations of believers have understood the meaning and implications of professing God's Unity. Islamic scholars have different approaches toward understanding it. Islamic theology, jurisprudence, philosophy, Sufism, even to some degree the Islamic understanding of natural sciences, all seek to explain at some level the principle of tawhid.The classical definition of tawhid was limited to declaring or preferring belief in one God and the unity of God. Although the monotheistic definition has persisted into modern Arabic, it is now more generally used to connote "unification, union, combination, fusion; standardization, regularization; consolidation, amalgamation, merger".