[1] Tawhid – Pure Islamic Monotheism

In The Name of Allah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy.

Allah [The Most High] said:

وَإِلَـٰهُكُمۡ إِلَـٰهٌ۬ وَٲحِدٌ۬‌ۖ لَّآ إِلَـٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ

And your Ilah (God) is One Ilah (God – Allah), La ilaha illa Huwa (there is none who has the right to be worshipped but He), the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. [Al-Baqarah 163]

Allah, The Most High, informed (us) – and He is The Most Truthful- that He is The One True God. Meaning-  Allah alone is singled out in His Essence, in His Names and Attributes, and Actions. Neither does Allah have a partner nor a co-equal; neither is anything similar to Allah nor can there be any likeness to Allah; neither is there a Creator (Who created and originated the universe) besides Allah nor anyone who has absolute control over the affairs of the universe besides Allah.

Therefore, when this is the case, Allah alone has the right to be deified, and He alone has the right to be worshipped through all acts of Worship (i.e. the acts of worship He has ordained and commanded the Messenger Muhammad to show us the manner in which they are to be performed).

“And Allah is The Most Beneficent, The Most Merciful“.

Meaning, the One with tremendous mercy, whose Mercy has no similarity to that of anyone else, for indeed Allah’s Mercy encompasses everything and is extended to every living thing. And due to His Mercy, the entire creation has been created, all types of virtue conferred on them and all types of calamities repelled from them. Due to His Mercy, He made Himself known to His creation through His Perfect Attributes and the blessings He has bestowed on them. He clarified everything they need – in their religious and worldly matters- through His Messengers and divine Books. Therefore, when it becomes manifest that all the things possessed by the slaves of Allah are a blessing from Allah and that none amongst His creation can benefit anyone else, it also becomes manifest that Allah alone has the right to be worshipped. Allah alone has the right to be loved, feared, exalted, relied upon (in a manner in which no one else is to be loved, feared, exalted, relied upon etc).

And the greatest type of all injustice and the most repugnant of all repugnant deeds is to turn away from worshipping Allah alone, while worshipping His slaves – those whom Allah  created from soil; or worshipping a created thing that is dependent on other created beings or things, and turning away from worshipping Allaah alone – The Creator and Maker of Everything, The one who disposes all the affairs in the Universe; The Fully Able One, The One Perfect In Strength, The Invincible Subduer, and The Overwhelming Subduer, Who is never overcome. This verse establishes the Oneness of Allah and His divinity, and that none amongst Allah’s creatures  is in possession of that.

An Excerpt from “Tafsir As-Sadi”