Tauheed comes from the verb whoa hey de
huaah header Wow ha with a shudder Dan
wah ha de and what header means to
ascribe unity to something to ascribe
unity to something so towhead is the
concept of believing something to be one
though hate is the concept of believing
something to be one
it's the verbal noun it's a noun and a
verb combined in Arabic we call it must
our tohave is the verbal noun of
believing something to be one and when
we use the lead in an Islamic fashion it
implies believing in the ultimate unity
of Allah believing in the ultimate unity
of Allah and this is manifested in a
number of different areas and I want you
to write this down believing in the
ultimate unity of Allah implies number
one believing that Allah is one and
unique in his lordship number two
believing that Allah is one and unique
in his names and attributes and number
three that believing that Allah is one
and unique in his right to be worshipped
these are three different areas that we
unify Allah in and it is not sufficient
to unify Allah in one of them and not
others so for example if a person says I
believe Allah is one as a lord he is my
Creator but then he says I also believe
that other people are all knowledgeable
just like Allah so he said Allah created
me this is my Lord but then he says this
human being is all knowledgeable this
saint can forgive my sins
this entity can grant me a child other
than Allah so he has not believed in
another Lord but he has given powers
names attributes that belong to Allah -
other than Allah and that's a problem
suppose somebody says I believe Allah is
my Lord and I believe Allah is perfect
in his names and attributes but I can
worship an idol and I will prostrate to
this idol and I will ask my needs for
this idol now he has unified Allah as
the Lord unified Allah in his names and
attributes but he has not unified Allah
in what the right to be worshipped and
this goes against okay so we say that to
unify Allah means you unify him in three
areas now where do I get this from this
categorization where is it found did the
Prophet seller said him tell us you must
unify Allah in three categories no he
did not he didn't say it in such an
explicit manner but it is inferred from
the Quran and Sunnah the concepts are
there even if they are not verbalized in
such a simplistic manner you see later
scholars the point of later scholars is
to simplify the concepts for the masses
the process of never sat down and said
you must fulfill six conditions to pray
these are the shuru the Salah these are
the arc I never did that rather he
demonstrated in his life how we do it
and so later scholars extracted from
that he never sat down and he taught fit
the way we teach fit is anybody going to
say oh this is haram to teach fifth in
this manner that there are six are can
and 6yg bad and six sooni's no nobody
says that because the concepts are found
in the Sun similarly the concepts of
tawheed are found in the Quran and
Sunnah where are they found I can give
you many many many examples but I was
suffice with two very simple examples
the first verses of the Quran and the
last verses of the Quran the first
verses of the Quran al-hamdu lillahi
but I've been added I mean Allah is
praising himself because he is what he
is the Lord
Rahman al Rahim Maliki Almondine Allah
is describing his names and attributes
he is rahim allah is rahim he is Malik
of the day of judgment he cannot bother
ye Akana Stein you alone do we worship
and you alone are the one whose help we
seek Allah is describing his unique
right to be worshipped
this is inferred that Allah is praising
himself because he is the Lord he's
praising yourself because he is perfect
and names and attributes and he's
praising himself because he alone
deserves to be worshipped these are the
three categories right here the very
same concept in the last verses Paulo
though they are all been ass ruby robbed
many keenness is the king that's a name
an attribute Eli he nos Allah means the
one who's worshipped Allah chooses three
things to talk about unifying him in
these categories and there are many many
many other examples that describe this
and so I want you to learn these Arabic
terms and we will write them down so
that there is no confusion with regards
to them these terms are number one I'll
write it in English so that you
understand what it is Ruvo be yeah and
in Arabic
rubia and rububiyyah basically means
lordship and we'll talk about these
categories and a lot of detail in this
class number two as smart it was safe at
a smart what
obviously fact in Arabic it is a smart
what else leaf at and the meaning is
names and attributes as smell it was a
fact
names and attributes we unify Allah as
our Lord we unify Allah as our as being
unique in his names and attributes and
the third category is Hulu he these are
terms I need you to memorize Hulu here
and in Arabic it is Hulu here from Allah
the same Allah Hulu here's the concept
so these are the categories of tawheed
categories of though here and what we
are saying is that to be fully a person
upon towhead you must unify Allah in all
of these categories were unifying Allah
making Allah one as our Lord he's the
only Lord we're unifying Allah as having
unique names and attributes and we are
unifying Allah as being the one who is
worthy of worship there are many
religions that unify Allah as a Lord but
then not in names and attributes there
are many who unify Allah as a Lord but
then not in worship we as Muslims
believe that it is essential to unify
Allah in all of these three categories
where did we get these categories from
we derived them from the Quran and the
Sunnah and of the first people of the
first explicit statements that we have
that divides towhead into more than one
category we find it from the Sahaba
themselves we find this from the Sahaba
themselves and later scholars Express
they said that we must believe in Allah
in this manner and in this manner and in
this manner and so they derived a number
of categories and we find even for
example imam abu hanifa rahim allah
wahda talking about rubia and lulu here
specifically two different concepts in
his book of allah akbar and we find many
other scholars of the past these terms
are found until finally they became a
part and parcel of our theology that
we're trying to explain to new muslims
to non-muslims what makes our religion
so different from theirs we say we unify
Allah in all of these categories and
there are many Quranic references to
this concept now how about the term
towhead itself is this term found in the
Quran and Sunnah the response yes it is
found in the Sunnah and not in the Quran
the word tawheed is found in the sunnah
in more than a dozen a hadith and of
these a hadith is the hadith of jabot
even Abdullah reported in Sahih Muslim
which describes the hedge of the prophet
sallallaahu and he will tell them and
what Jabbar says is the prophecy sinem a
halibut towhead he announced his though
he'd so the term tor hate is known to
him another hadith which expose
dimensions though he'd is the hadith of
why they Benjamin reported in sahih
bukhari in which the Prophet SAW saw
them said oh my god you're going to
Yemen and so let the first thing that
you call people to be and you added
which is the same verb as to heat no
hate is the concept you why it is the
verb that they make Allah one that they
do towhead you can translate it this way
let the first thing that you call these
people to be that they do to hate and
you ahead ilaha tada
so the term tawheed is found in the
Sunnah of the Prophet SAW you send them
and that is why the scholars of the past
accepted without any problem Imam and
Buhari and his famous book Sahaba Hadi
has an entire chapter called kitab
Tauheed whole book called Caputo heat in
his Sahih Bukhari Sahib Bihari is
composed of many books many small books
it's one sahibu haughty within it there
are many books kita busalacchi tableau
Luka tabla inequitable hedge one of
these key taps key Tabata heat so
amendment Bihari is using the term many
of the scholars of the past used the
term and the term is now accepted as a
fundamental about religion until he
means Islamically to unify Allah in all
of these categories