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What is the answer to the one who says that dividing tawhid (the oneness of Allah) into lordship, worship, and names and attributes is an innovation?

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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner asks: What is the ruling on the one who objects to dividing tawhid (the oneness of Allah) into three categories: lordship, worship, and names and attributes, and says that this is among the innovations that did not exist in the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)?

Answer:
I told you that these people are trying to uproot the creed. Sometimes they say there is no name for the creed in the Qur'an and the Sunnah, and no name for tawhid (the oneness of Allah). Sometimes they say that dividing tawhid (the oneness of Allah) into three categories is a bid'ah (religious innovation). They want to cast doubt on this matter. The naming of the creed is found in the Book and the Sunnah. The name is taken from the Book and the Sunnah. The naming of the creed and the naming of tawhid (the oneness of Allah) exist, even if not by explicit text, but by meaning.
As for the categories of tawhid (the oneness of Allah), they are present in the Qur'an. In fact, the entire Qur'an is about tawhid (the oneness of Allah), as Ibn al-Qayyim said. Whatever speaks of the lordship of Allah, His ownership, His power, and His will is about tawhid al-rububiyyah (oneness of lordship).
Whatever speaks of the names of Allah and His attributes is about tawhid al-asma' wa al-sifat (oneness of the names and attributes). Whatever speaks of worshipping Allah alone, with no partner, and abandoning the worship of anything else is tawhid al-uluhiyyah (oneness of worship). All of this is present in the Qur'an. In the beginning of al-Fatihah (Surat al-Fatihah), the three categories of tawhid (the oneness of Allah) are in the beginning of al-Fatihah (Surat al-Fatihah). "All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds" is tawhid al-rububiyyah (oneness of lordship). "Lord of the worlds"
(3) The Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful, (4) Sovereign of the Day of Recompense.الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ مَالِكِ يَوْمِ الدِّينِ
[Al-Fatihah 1:3-4]
This is tawhid al-asma' wa al-sifat (oneness of the names and attributes).
It is You we worship and You we ask for help.إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ
[Al-Fatihah 1:5]
This is tawhid of what? Al-uluhiyyah (oneness of worship). In the last surah of the Qur'an, Surah al-Nas,
Say, "I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind,قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ النَّاسِ
[An-Nas 114:1]
tawhid al-rububiyyah (oneness of lordship). "Lord of mankind" is "Lord of mankind," "Lord of mankind." This is tawhid of what? Al-uluhiyyah (oneness of worship). "Lord of mankind" is what?
The names and attributes. But these people are either ignorant and villains who do not understand anything, and what they do not understand they want to deny, or they are misguided and want to uproot the creed, and this is the majority of them. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [11 -560] ما الجواب على من قال إن تقسيم: الربوبية والألوهية والأسماء والصفات من الأمور المحدثة؟ — youtube.com

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