Ibn Hajr Al Asqalani (d.852AH) in his renowned commentary work on Sahih Al Bukhari, at the beginning of Chapter of Tawhid, provides the definition of Tawhid in the following way:
وَقِيلَ سَلَبْتُ عَنْهُ الْكَيْفِيَّةَ وَالْكَمِّيَّةَ فَهُوَ وَاحِدٌ فِي ذَاتِهِ لَا انْقِسَامَ لَهُ وَفِي صِفَاتِهِ لَا شَبِيهَ لَهُ فِي إِلَهِيَّتِهِ وَمُلْكِهِ وَتَدْبِيرِهِ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ وَلَا رَبَّ سِوَاهُ وَلَا خَالِقَ غَيْرُهُ
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Abul Qasim Al Tamimi said in the book “Al Hujjat”, Tawheed is the oneness and unity of the source. And meaning of oneness of Allah, is to believe He is unique/single in His Essence and Attributes without an equal nor similarity.
It is said, the meaning of oneness is to know He is One.
And it was said, It is to negate Him of howness and quantity. He is one and indivisible in His Essence and in His attributes. There is no equal/likeness to Him in His divinity, dominion, and management. He has no partner and there is no Lord besides Him, and there is no creator besides Him.
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Note how Tawheed is a matter of “belief” and not mere outward actions.
And compare the entirety of the definition with the completely alien understanding of Tawhid the Wahhabi movement invented which is that, “Tawhid is to not call for help an invisible, distant or incapable object, and to not call anyone besides Allah for help for a supernatural matter or for a matter which only Allah is capable”.
Neither the Quran nor any of the Prophets, nor the Sahabah nor the Salaf nor the Imams nor any of the books of Islamic creed have taught this fabricated definition of Tawhid. Based on such fabrications, they engage in mass takfir of the entirety of Muslim world past and present. And they consider only a select few mostly from the post 18th century world to have truly understood tawhid and the vastness of heavens are reserved only for these select few.
Source: Here
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Edited by ADHM
