Tauheed and Adl-e-Ilahi
(Oneness or Unity and Justice of Allah)
Tauheed (Oneness of Allah)
Allah is One and Matchless. He is Eternal – the First and the Last, i.e. He was before the creations from ever and will remain after its end for ever. He is Ever-living, the Wise, the Powerful, the Creator, Independent of all things, All-Hearing, All-Seeing, All-Knowing, and Just. He does not do anything without any purpose. He is not to be compared to His creatures. He has neither body nor shape, nor substance, nor form. He is neither heavy nor light, neither moving nor motionless. He is above time and place as He is the Creator of them. No one can point to Him as He is not confined in a place or direction, and nothing is similar to Him. Nor has He any match. He has no spouse, no offspring, no parents, no partner and there is non comparable to Him. Vision can not perceive Him, but He perceives everything. He does not sleep or doze.
Allah can not come in our thoughts, our wisdom can not reach Him i.e. Allah is above our imaginations, wisdom and senses. He has no body parts, He does not descend on Earth from Heavens, He will not show Himself on the Day of Judgement, He will not appear like full moon in Paradise. There is no duality between Allah and His Attributes.
Some of the Attributes of Allah are the Beautiful 99 Names of Allah, which are highly recommended to remember and mention in Duas.
Adl-e-Ilahi (Justice of Allah)
Allah is Just. He is not unjust to anyone. He rewards those who obey His commands. He punishes those who commit sins. He does not compel His servants to do things which are beyond their capacity and He does not punish them for more than what they have done.
“Allah commands justice” (An-Nisa 58)
“And Allah does not intend to be unjust to servants” (Ghafir 31)
Qaza and Qadar
Human beings are not totally compelled to do good and bad, nor they are totally free to do anything, but reality is the middle path between compulsion and free will, i.e. if a person does a good deed it is due to Allah’s Grace and Guidance and that person will get many-folds reward, and if a person does a bad deed it is due to his own bad intention in-spite of Guidance of Allah through His prophets (a.s.) and Allah does not like evil, but Allah knows all our deeds and intentions beforehand.
As mentioned in surah Room v.30,Allah has created humans on the nature of Islam.
Then it is the parents who makes him Jew or Christian.
Khair and Sharr (Good and Evil)
Allah has shown us both ways, good and evil, and Allah has given us power, now whether we use this power to do good or bad it is our decision. But Allah knows what we will do.
Allah commands us to do good and prohibits us from evil, because it is in our own interest, our good deeds and worship is not of any benefit to Allah, He is Al-Samad.
All Good is from Allah and Sharr is our own evil intention and due to Shaitan’s misguidance.
Imam Sadiq (a.s.) gave an example: If you see a person who is going to do something evil and you forbid him, but he does not accept your advice. So you leave him and he commits sin. So you are not responsible for his refusal to accept advice, and when you left him alone, does not mean that you ordered him to commit sin.
Life and Death
Death is Haqq, everyone has to taste Death.
Rasool Allah (s.a.w.a.w.) said: World (this Life) is a Prison for Mo’min and Paradise for Kafir, and Death is a Bridge to take Mo’mineen to Jannat and for Kafireen to go to Jahannam.
Allah can never be seen
Allah can never be seen in this world, on the Day of Judgement or in Paradise.
Hazrat Musa (a.s.) knew that Allah can never be seen, but he conveyed the request of his nation to see Him. Then Allah answered that “you can never see me
” mentioned in surah A’raaf v.143.
Ghaib
It is a must to believe in Ghaib e.g. Imam Mahdi (a.s.) is in occultation and will come to prevail justice on Earth and we all pray the he (a.s.) should reappear as soon as possible, we believe thatWahi
(Revelation),Mala’ika
(Angels),Qayamat, Hisaab
,Jannat, Jahannam, Siraat
isHaqq.
Allah has bestowed all the knowledge of Ghaib (which has not happened yet or which is beyond human perception) and Shahadah( which has happened or can be observed) to His Beloved Mohammad (s.a.w.a.w.).
Kutub and Suhuf
We believe in all the books (Zaboor, Taurat, Injeel,
and otherSuhuf
) given by Allah to the previous prophets (a.s.). The original books were Right, and everyone knows that these books have been altered now by human beings according to their wishes and benefits.
Holy Quran is the Final and Unchanged Book of Allah.
Quran-e-Majeed
Holy Quran is the Word of Allah, miracle of our beloved Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.w.), it is protected by Allah that no one can dare to make any alteration in it. It is wrong to say or believe that some sections of the Holy Quran have been destroyed.
Verily,Bismillah
is the first verse of every surah except surahTaubah
(Bara’at). No one can dare to remove it from the beginning of the surahs, or to write it at the beginning of surah Taubah, which is a clear proof that Bismillah is part of the Quran. It is sin to deny it as the first verse.
We believe that no where in Quran Allah is using harsh words, or warning, or angry to Rasool Allah (s.a.w.a.w.), actually ignorant or enemies have distorted the meanings and explanations of some verses against the Beloved Prophet (s.a.w.a.w.). Therefore it is necessary to learn Quran from the Infallible Teachers (a.s.). Some verses are for the general public but addressed through Nabi (s.a.w.a.w.) like the famous Arabic proverb: I am saying to you but neighbour should listen.
“We did not leave anything incomplete in the Book” (An’am 38). Surah Ma’ida v.3 tells us that Deen has been completed and perfected.
We believe that Quran and Sunnah of Infallibles (a.s.) is enough for us, there is no need of human Fatwas, we only need to consult any Mo’min Aalim to find the solution of our problems in Quran and Sunnah.
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Author: Al-Syyed Abu Mohammad Abrar al-Hasnain Fatimi al-Naqvi
