AQA A-Level Religious Studies 7062
Arguments for the Existence of God
Evil and Suffering
Religious Language
Self and Life After Death
Religious Experience
Ethical Theories
Issues of Human Life and Death
Meta Ethics
Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Conscience
Bentham and Kant
Issues of Animal Life and Death
Buddhism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityBuddhism
Buddhism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion, Gender and SexualityBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and ScienceBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and SecularisationBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and Religious PluralismBuddhism
Buddhism: Dialogue with PhilosophyBuddhism
Buddhism: Dialogue with EthicsBuddhism
Buddhism: God and Ultimate RealityBuddhism
Buddhism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeBuddhism
Buddhism: Expression of Religious IdentityBuddhism
Christianity: God and Ultimate RealityChristianity
Christianity: Self, Death and the AfterlifeChristianity
Christianity: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesChristianity
Christianity: Religion, Gender and SexualityChristianity
Christianity: Religion and ScienceChristianity
Christianity: Religion and SecularisationChristianity
Christianity: Religion and Religious PluralismChristianity
Christianity: Dialogue with PhilosophyChristianity
Christianity: Dialogue with EthicsChristianity
Christianity: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityChristianity
Christianity: Expression of Religious IdentityChristianity
Hinduism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityHinduism
Hinduism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesHinduism
Hinduism: Religion, Gender and SexualityHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and ScienceHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and SecularisationHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and Religious PluralismHinduism
Hinduism: Dialogue with PhilosophyHinduism
Hinduism: Dialogue with EthicsHinduism
Hinduism: God and Ultimate RealityHinduism
Hinduism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeHinduism
Hinduism: Expression of Religious IdentityHinduism
Islam: God and Ultimate RealityIslam
Islam: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesIslam
Islam: Religion, Gender and SexualityIslam
Islam: Religion and ScienceIslam
Islam: Religion and SecularisationIslam
Islam: Religion and Religious PluralismIslam
Islam: Dialogue with PhilosophyIslam
Islam: Dialogue with EthicsIslam
Islam: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityIslam
Islam: Self, Death and the AfterlifeIslam
Islam: Expression of Religious IdentityIslam
Judaism: God and Ultimate RealityJudaism
Judaism: Dialogue with PhilosophyJudaism
Judaism: Religion and ScienceJudaism
Judaism: Religion and SecularisationJudaism
Judaism: Religion and Religious PluralismJudaism
Judaism: Dialogue with EthicsJudaism
Judaism: Religion, Gender and SexualityJudaism
Judaism: Expression of Religious IdentityJudaism
Judaism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityJudaism
Judaism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeJudaism
Judaism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesJudaism
Islam: God and Ultimate Reality
Tawhid and Shirk
- 5 things to know
- Component 2
Overview
Recall questions on the meaning of Tawhid, what shirk is and why it is the gravest sin, and the surah taken as its clearest statement.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
State the Qur’anic principle that rules out likening God to anything created.
State the three aspects of Tawhid distinguished by many Sunni theologians.
How does Tawhid affect the way a Muslim views the whole of daily life?
Explain God's transcendence and why human language cannot capture Him.
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
Define Tawhid.
Model answer
It is the belief that God is one, utterly unique and indivisible, with no partner, rival or equal.
- 2
Define shirk.
Model answer
It is associating any partner or equal with God, whether an idol, a person, a power or an ambition.
- 3
Why is shirk regarded as the gravest of sins?
Model answer
It denies the one truth on which everything else in Islam rests, and the Qur’an teaches that God forgives every sin except unrepented shirk.
- 4
Which short surah is treated as the clearest statement of Tawhid?
Model answer
Surah 112, which declares God one, eternally self-sufficient, neither begetting nor begotten, and without any equal.
- 5
How does the Shahadah express Tawhid?
Model answer
Its first half denies that there is any god but God, so faith begins by rejecting every rival object of worship.
- 6
Explain what is meant by calling God transcendent.
Model answer
He is wholly beyond and unlike His creation, and is not limited by time, space or matter.
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