The Virtues of Tawhid

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Question:
The final question from the brother questioner. He says: Shaykh, the messengers and prophets came with the call to tawhid (the oneness of Allah), so what are the virtues of tawhid? May Allah reward you.

Answer:
Tawhid (the oneness of Allah) is singling out Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) in worship. This is what Allah created the creation for, as in His saying, the Exalted:

And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me.

وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونِ

[Adh-Dhariyat 51:56]

And Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He), in the first call in the Qur'an from Surat al-Baqarah, says, the Exalted:

⁽²¹⁾ O mankind, worship your Lord, who created you and those before you, that you may become righteous - ⁽²²⁾ [He] who made for you the earth a bed [spread out] and the sky a ceiling and sent down from the sky, rain and brought forth thereby

يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اعْبُدُوا رَبَّكُمُ الَّذِي خَلَقَكُمْ وَالَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ الَّذِي جَعَلَ لَكُمُ الْأَرْضَ فِرَاشًا وَالسَّمَاءَ بِنَاءً وَأَنزَلَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَاءً فَأَخْرَجَ بِهِ

[Al-Baqarah 2:21-22]

fruits as provision for you. So do not attribute to Allah equals while you know [that there is nothing similar to Him].

مِنَ الثَّمَرَاتِ رِزْقًا لَّكُمْ فَلَا تَجْعَلُوا لِلَّهِ أَندَادًا وَأَنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ

[Al-Baqarah 2:22]

Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good,

Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، برنامج (فتاوى) (171) لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان بتاريخ [1440-02-09] - كبار العلماء — youtube.com (8:17)

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