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Islam: God and Ultimate Reality

Tawhid and Shirk

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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.

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Which short surah is treated as the clearest statement of Tawhid?

Key term

State the Qur’anic principle that rules out likening God to anything created.

Key term

State the three aspects of Tawhid distinguished by many Sunni theologians.

Key term

How does Tawhid affect the way a Muslim views the whole of daily life?

Process

Explain God's transcendence and why human language cannot capture Him.

Questions from this subtopic

Each one with the model answer underneath.

  1. 1

    Define Tawhid.

    Model answer

    It is the belief that God is one, utterly unique and indivisible, with no partner, rival or equal.

  2. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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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