Is this definition correct: Tawhid (the oneness of Allah) is singling out Allah for what is specific to Him?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner asks: Is this definition correct, that tawhid is singling out Allah for what is specific to Him? No.
Answer:
No, that is a general statement and does not convey anything. Tawhid is singling out Allah in worship. This is the explanation and interpretation of tawhid: singling out Allah in worship, taken from the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Adh-Dhariyat 51:56] [Al-Baqarah 2:21] "I created." This is the correct interpretation of tawhid. As for the phrases taken from here and there with definitions that ruin the matter, that is not acceptable. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner asks: Is this definition correct, that tawhid is singling out Allah for what is specific to Him? No.
Answer:
No, that is a general statement and does not convey anything. Tawhid is singling out Allah in worship. This is the explanation and interpretation of tawhid: singling out Allah in worship, taken from the saying of Allah the Exalted:
And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me.
وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونِO mankind, worship your Lord, who
يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اعْبُدُوا رَبَّكُمُ الَّذِي
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [120 -308] هل هذا التعريف صحيح: التوحيد هو إفراد الله بما يختص به؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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