(The Definition of Tawhid According to the Ittihadiyyah) But the tawhid of those who claim *** union, they are the people of gnosis; Lord and servant, how is that? And only the *** existent
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The Shaykh :"But the tawhid of those who claim *** union, they are the people of gnosis
Lord and servant, how is that? And only the *** existent is one, having no second"
This is the summary of tawhid according to whom?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : According to the people of Ittihad. The difference between them and their predecessors, the philosophers, is that the philosophers hold that the Lord is one thing and the created thing is another, but the Lord is a reality that has no existence in their view, because they say He is the Absolute Existence. These people say the Lord and the servant are one thing. So whoever affirms two has, has associated partners with Allah. Read
The reader: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
"A section on the third type of tawhid for the people of heresy"
"This is the third, which is the tawhid of *** the Jahmiyyah: denial without faith
Denial of the attributes along with the Highness, and likewise the denial of His speech by revelation and the Qur'an
So upon the Throne there is nothing at all, *** but it is empty of the Most Merciful
Above it there is no Lord to be obeyed, and upon it *** there is no Creator, the Merciful, for the servants
Rather, the share of the Lord's Throne in their view *** is like the share of the lowest, bottommost part
So it is denied regarding its attributes of perfection *** and regarding speech and all meanings
And look at what we have related about it in *** the beginning of the poem, the narration of clarification
This is the tawhid of their group, *** following the great ones who lead in slander
And shirk in their view is affirming the *** attributes for our Lord, and the end of disbelief
If that is shirk, and all the messengers *** came with it, oh woe to mankind"
Lord and servant, how is that? And only the *** existent is one, having no second"
This is the summary of tawhid according to whom?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : According to the people of Ittihad. The difference between them and their predecessors, the philosophers, is that the philosophers hold that the Lord is one thing and the created thing is another, but the Lord is a reality that has no existence in their view, because they say He is the Absolute Existence. These people say the Lord and the servant are one thing. So whoever affirms two has, has associated partners with Allah. Read
The reader: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
"A section on the third type of tawhid for the people of heresy"
"This is the third, which is the tawhid of *** the Jahmiyyah: denial without faith
Denial of the attributes along with the Highness, and likewise the denial of His speech by revelation and the Qur'an
So upon the Throne there is nothing at all, *** but it is empty of the Most Merciful
Above it there is no Lord to be obeyed, and upon it *** there is no Creator, the Merciful, for the servants
Rather, the share of the Lord's Throne in their view *** is like the share of the lowest, bottommost part
So it is denied regarding its attributes of perfection *** and regarding speech and all meanings
And look at what we have related about it in *** the beginning of the poem, the narration of clarification
This is the tawhid of their group, *** following the great ones who lead in slander
And shirk in their view is affirming the *** attributes for our Lord, and the end of disbelief
If that is shirk, and all the messengers *** came with it, oh woe to mankind"