Their tawhid (the oneness of Allah) is that the deity is the absolute existence diffused in entities (The difference between the Ittihadiyyah and the philosophers regarding tawhid)
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The Shaykh : For this reason, he says:
"Their tawhid (the oneness of Allah) is that the deity is the absolute existence diffused in entities"
The phrase "diffused in entities" is the distinction between their tawhid (the oneness of Allah) and the tawhid of the earlier philosophers, because the earlier philosophers do not say that the Lord is the created being; they say the Lord is alone, but He is the existence that has no self and no attributes. These people, however, say: the Lord is the created being, one single existing thing. But it is one single thing, and the difference among people is a difference of types: of animals, of trees, of mountains, of rivers. It is a difference of appearances, a difference of appearances, just as a person appears with one face when angry and with another face when happy, whereas in reality all of it is one single thing.
"Their tawhid (the oneness of Allah) is that the deity is the absolute existence diffused in entities"
The phrase "diffused in entities" is the distinction between their tawhid (the oneness of Allah) and the tawhid of the earlier philosophers, because the earlier philosophers do not say that the Lord is the created being; they say the Lord is alone, but He is the existence that has no self and no attributes. These people, however, say: the Lord is the created being, one single existing thing. But it is one single thing, and the difference among people is a difference of types: of animals, of trees, of mountains, of rivers. It is a difference of appearances, a difference of appearances, just as a person appears with one face when angry and with another face when happy, whereas in reality all of it is one single thing.