Sufi Tauheed-Unification

“Bismillahir Rahmannir Raheem””Al-Hamdu Lillaahi Rabbil ‘Aalameen was Salaatu was- Salaamu ‘Alaa Sayidinaa Muhammadin wa Aalihi wa Asabihi Ajma ‘een (tauheed- risalat- ahkirat and islam-iman-ihsan)

CONCERNING UNIFICATION (tawhid)

God said, “Your God is one” (16/23); and again, “Say, ‘God is one”‘ (112/1).

Real unification (tawhid) consists in asserting the unity of a thing and in having a perfect knowledge of its unity. In asmuch as 1.God is one, 2.without any sharer in His essence(most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience) and attributes (characteristic of an entity), 3.without any substitute, without any partner in His actions.

UNIFICATION is of three kinds:

(1) God’s unification of God, i.e. His knowledge of His unity;

(2) God’s unification of His creatures, i.e. His decree that a man shall pronounce Him to be one, and the creation of unification in his heart;

(3) men’s unification of God, i.e. their knowledge of the unity of God. Therefore, when a man knows God he can declare His unity and pronounce that He is one, incapable of union and separation, not admitting duality; that His unity is not a number so as to be made two by the predication of another number; that He is not finite so as to have six directions; that He has no space, and that He is not in space, so as to need a substance, nor a substance, which cannot exist without another like itself, nor a natural constitution (tab’i), in which motion and rest originate, nor a spirit so as to need a frame, nor a body so as to be composed of limbs; and that He does not become immanent (hall) in things, for then He must be homogeneous with them; and that He is not joined to anything, for then that thing must be a part of Him; and that He is free from all imperfections and exalted above all defects; and that He has no like, so that He and His creature should make two; and that He has no child whose begetting would necessarily cause Him to be a stock (asl) and that His essence and attributes are unchangeable; and that He is endowed with those attributes of perfection which believers and Unitarians affirm, and which He has described Himself as possessing; and that He is exempt from those attributes which heretics arbitrarily impute to Him; and that He is Living, Knowing, Forgiving, Merciful, Willing, Powerful, Hearing, Seeing, Speaking, and Subsistent; and that His knowledge is not a state (hal) in Him, nor His power solidly planted (salabat) in Him, nor His hearing and sight do detached (Mutajarrid) in Him, nor His speech divided in Him; and that He together with His attributes exists from eternity; and that objects of cognition are not outside of His knowledge, and that entities are entirely dependent on His will; and that He does that which He has willed, and wills that which He has known, and no creature has cognisance thereof; and that His decree is an absolute fact, and that His friends have no resource except resignation; and that He is the sole predestinator of good and evil, and the only being that is worthy of hope or fear; and that He creates all benefit and injury; and that He alone gives judgment, and His judgment is all wisdom; and that no one has any possibility of attaining unto Him; and that the inhabitants of Paradise shall behold Him; and that assimilation (absorbtion-tashih) is inadmissible; and that such terms as “confronting” and “seeing face to face” (muqabalat u muwajahat) cannot be applied to His being; and that His saints may enjoy the contemplation (A long and thoughtful observation /meditation -mushahadah) of Him in this world

“Our principles in unification are five: cannot attain to His holy essence,convinced that God always existed,departure from the habitual pleasures of the lower soul,turning away from the society any thought of other than God is a veil and for unification denies whatever the knowledge of mankind affirms about it; for ignorance is not unification

unification is the act of God in the heart of His creature.

unification is a mystery revealed by God to His servants.

unification consists in declaring the unity of a thing, and that such a declaration cannot be made without knowledge.

When I want to talk to allah I say prayers and when I want that he talk to me I recite quran- Hazrath Ali(ra)

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