18. God’s Oneness & Uniqueness (TAUHID) ...continued

God says:

And God alone comprehends the hidden reality [al-ghayb] of the heavens and the earth: for, all that exists goes back to Him [as its source]. Worship Him, then, and place thy trust in Him alone: -- Q.11: 123

And God has said: “Do not take to worshipping two [or more] deities. He is the One and Only God: hence, of Me, of Me alone stand in awe!” -- Q.16: 51

... never call upon any other deity side by side with God. There is no other deity save Him. Everything is bound to perish, save His [eternal] Self. With Him rests all judgment; and unto Him shall you all be brought back. -- Q.28: 88

And so, set thy face steadfastly towards the (one ever-true) faith, turning away from all that is false, in accordance with the natural disposition which God has installed into man: * (for) not to allow any change to corrupt what God has thus created -- Q.30: 30
”Natural Disposition”, connotes in this context man’s inborn, intuitive ability to discern between right and wrong, true and false, and, thus, to sense God’s existence and oneness.

Thus it is, because God alone is the Ultimate Truth, so that all that men invoke instead of Him is sheer falsehood; and because God alone is exalted, truly great! -- Q31: 30




Prophet said:

1. “ God will not permit to send to hell anyone who (truly) testifies: ‘There is no deity except God’ seeking nothing but His countenance.” – H: Bukhari & Muslim. N: Itban.
Because in that case a Muslim will obey God, with the belief that he, or she, will be accountable to Him for his or her deeds on the Day of Resurrection. In the Qur’an, therefore, belief in God is always mentioned together with the doing of righteous deeds that will lead to Paradise. Righteous deeds without belief will be rewarded, but only in this world.

2 . “…As for (son of Adam) reviling Me, it is his saying: God has taken to Himself a son, while I am the One (and only), the Everlasting Refuge. I begot not nor was I begotten, and there is none comparable to Me” –Part of Hadis Qudsi: Bukhari.N: Abu Hurairah. (Also Nisai)
The fact that God is one and unique in every respect without beginning and without end, has its logical correlate in the statement that “there is nothing that could be compared with Him”- thus precluding every possibility of describing or defining Him. Consequently, the Quality of His being is beyond the range of Human comprehension: which also explains why any attempt at “depicting” God by means of figurative representations or even abstract symbols must be qualified as a blasphemous denial of the truth.