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“TAUHEED KHAALIQIYAH
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“INTRODUCTION TO STUDY OF
TAUHEED – (AQA’ID) ”
Intermediate Level Islamic course in English for Adults
conducted by Ustaz Zhulkeflee Hj Ismail

18 weekly class started on : 15th JANUARY 2014
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Updated 26 February 2014

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OUR PROPHET MUHAMMAD SAID:

"(To know Allah) Think (and reflect) upon Allah's creation
(i.e. what He has created) and do not try to think in Allah
(His Essence: Dzat), for you will most certainly not be able
to comprehend it.“
(Al-Hadith)

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For those with knowledge ……

“Of all His servants, only such as are endowed with (innate)
knowledge stand (truly) in awe of Allah: (for they alone
comprehend that) verily, Allah is Almighty, Much Forgiving.”
(Qur’an: Fatir 35 : 40)


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The terms "TAUHEED AL-KHALIQ-QIYYAH" refers to
the approach of confirming the Oneness of God
(Allah) as the Creator (AL-KHAA-LIQ), verified from
the evidence inherent in the whole of creation.


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“ALL PRAISE is due to Allah, (KHALAQA-AS-SAMA’) who has
created the heavens and the earth, and brought into being
deep darkness as well as light: and yet, those who are bent
on denying the truth regard other powers as their
Sustainer's equals! .He it is who (KHALAQA-KUM) has
created you out of clay, and then has decreed a term [for
you] - a term known [only] to him. And yet you doubt –”
(Qur’an: An-’am: 6: 1-2)


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Although most people can easily acknowledge the God as
the CREATOR (KHAALIQ) of creation, and that this ‘ First
Cause ‘ is One, Unique – (TAUHEED).
Yet, after creation, many wrongly imagined or been misled
to believe that God then does not have the ultimate role of
being the LORD (AR-ROBB) Sustaining the whole world.
Many ascribe that He, like human, is merely watching over
this world from some celestial court (Anthropomorphism).

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And to reject this false notion (conjecture) thus "TAUHEED
AR-RUB-BU-BIYYAH" is the approach of confirming that the
Oneness of God (Allah) is also as Him being the Sustainer or
Cherisher (AR-ROBB) , in the evidence of the wonderful
order and harmonious existence of all things in this
universe.
Without acknowledging this aspect, many had fallen into
SHIRK, ascribing to others as being also the Divine.

An invitation to reflect


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An invitation to reflect

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"Behold! In the creation of the heavens and the earth
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and in the alternation of Night and Day, there are

indeed Signs for men of understanding,
Men who celebrate the praises of Allah, standing
sitting and lying down on their sides and contemplate
the wonders of creation in the heavens and the earth ,
(with a thought):
"Our Lord! You have not created this for nothing! Glory
to Thee! Give us salvation from the penalty of the
Fire."
(Qur’an : Ali Imran 3 : 190-191 )

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"And on earth there are Signs (of Allah's existence, visible) to
all who are endowed with inner certainty, just as (there are
signs) thereof within your own selves: can you not then see? “
( Qur'an: Az-Dzariyat: 51 : 20-21 )

Can you not then see?

In analysing of the Signs of His Existence, Allah s.w.t.
does not want us to be man-centred in our outlook.

Allah, the Creator and Sustainer of the Universe invites
man to observe yet His other greater Signs in the whole
of creation.
Man is just a small part of the whole creation

"Greater indeed than the creation of man is the
creation of the heavens and the earth: yet most
man do not understand (what this implies.)
But (then), the blind and the seeing are not
equal."
( Qur'an: Ghafir 40 : 57 )

Are we blind that we do not or cannot see …?

"Soon will We show them Our signs in the furthest
regions (of the universe) and in their own souls
(Nafs-Self), until it become manifest to them that
this is the Truth. Is it not enough that thy Lord
doth witness all things? "
( Qur'an: Fussilat: 41: 53 )


"(Hallowed be) He Who has created seven *
heavens in full harmony with one another,no fault will thou see in the creation of the
Most Gracious. And turn thy vision (upon it)
once more, canst thou see any flaw? Again
turn thy vision a second time; (thy) vision will
come back to thee dull and discomfited, in a
state worn out. “
( Q : Mulk: 67: 3 -4 )

* In the Arabic usage, - as in other Semitic languages as well, the
number "seven"' is often synonymous with "several" (see Lisanul
Arab). The term "sama' " ("heaven" or "sky”) is applied to anything
that is spread like a canopy above any other thing.
Thus, the visible skies which stretch like a vault above the earth and
form, as it were, its canopy, are called "sama' ": and this is the
primary meaning of this term in the Qur’an in a wider sense, it has
the connotation of "cosmic system". Thus, taken together with the
accepted linguistic definition, "seven heavens" denotes the
multiplicity of cosmic system.

So after analysing our biological wonders
(inner), let us now turn towards the horizon
of this vast universe (outer) ....


 Because our awareness is limited to ourselves and our immediate
surroundings, we tend to regard the entire creations of Allah s.w.t.
within this limitation and therefore fail to fully grasp the Might of
Allah, the One Absolute Creator and Sustainer.

 With our given faculties, we are invited to survey the vast universe in
which confirmation of the Oneness of Allah, the Creator and Sustainer
is ever manifested.


 Allah s.w.t. hints at the full harmony and the perfect order which is an
inevitable indication of this Truth.


See and reflect.

 The simple statement of the Qur'an is in actual fact very profound to
those who have knowledge of the universe. For many of us although
we may know about the sun, the moon and the stars yet this
‘knowledge’ of ours is simply a superficial awareness; lacking depth.


 We are like a man standing beside a deep ravine at night without
knowing how deep and dangerous it is, therefore lacking true
awareness – (heedless; lacking in precaution; reckless even).
 But, when the deep ravine becomes apparent at daybreak, it sent
chills down our spine especially fearing for our safety.
 Thus knowledge, like Geology, Botany and Astronomy etc. are
relevant and important as a means towards our deeper realization
of TAUHEED, - from the knowledge of certainty regarding the
Reality of existence.

“O mankind, worship your Lord, who created you and
those before you, that you may become righteous
( being conscious of Him - TAQWA) - [He] who made
for you the earth a bed [spread out] and (SAMAA-A
BI-NAA-A) the sky a ceiling (canopy) and sent down
from the sky, rain and brought forth thereby fruits as
provision for you. So do not attribute to Allah equals
while you know [that there is nothing similar to
Him].”
(Qur’an: Baqarah: 2: 21-22)

“And the sky a ceiling (canopy) “


Protection of all life from hazardous or deadly radiation from
space (filter for UV- and x-rays from sun).
Letting pass the vitally important sunlight to the surface of the
continents and oceans (energy source).
Protections from rapid cooling at night and heating at day.
Makes possible a mean temperature on Earth's surface of
+15 °C instead of -18 °C as would be without atmosphere.
Transport of energy (warmth of air that can be felt and latent
warmth of water vapour) from the equatorial regions to
medium and higher latitudes.


Transport of water vapour through dynamic processes of
general air circulation that determines precipitation.
Storage of huge amounts of nitrogen (important for plants).
Reservoir for carbon dioxide and oxygen.
Is part of different vital cycles of matter.
Dissipation and decomposition (oxidation, reaction with
radicals, photolysis) of natural and anthropogenic (man-made)
emissions.
Protection from smaller meteorites that burn up by heating
from the friction when entering the Earth's atmosphere and
can not reach the surface.


Twinkle, twinkle little star?

 We are not quite aware of the vastness of the
universe. Many of us have seen and have
described the stars as "twinkling little star."

Our short-sightedness does not help us to
really feel the awesome grandeur of Allah's
creation.

Twinkle, twinkle little star?
 Studies in astronomy show that the number of stars in the sky is more
numerous than all the grains of sand on all the seashores of our planet,
many stars being vastly greater in size than our earth, some even are
so enormous that each has the girth the size of which can contain
hundreds of thousand of earths inside them and still have room to
spare!
 A few of them are even big enough to contain millions of earths!

How vast is the Universe?


 Astronomers estimate that the universe consists of five hundred
million galaxies.


 Each galaxy contains about 100,000 stars.
 The nearest galaxy i.e. our galaxy, the Milky Way, which is partially
visible at night, measures in 100,000 light years * across.
* (Light travels at 186,282 miles per second. And a light year means
that it would require one year travelling at this speed to cover that
distance !! )

 According to astronomers, we on earth are 30,000 light years way
from the centre of this galaxy.
 This galaxy in turn forms part of an even larger super-galaxy within
which 17 galaxies similar to ours are in perpetual motion.
 The entire cluster is 2 million light years in diameter.


Size of planet just within our solar system

AND OUR SUN IS JUST A TINY STAR COMPARED WITH OTHER BILLION STARS

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EVER EXPANDING

"And it is We who have-built the universe with (Our creative)
power; and, verily, it is We who are steadily expanding it. “
( Qur'an: Az-Dzariyat: 51 :47 )


EVER EXPANDING
 We are told that the size of the universe is not static but expanding every
moment in all directions. So rapid is this expansion that according to an
estimate by Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944), noted British
physicist and astronomer, every 1300 million years, all the distances in
this universe are doubled.

 This estimation of the vastness of the universe is based on Einstein's
theory of relativity. But this is just a mathematician's guess. The truth is
man has yet to comprehend the vastness of the universe.

Ever moving in harmony



"(Hallowed be) He Who has created seven heavens in full harmony
with one another, no fault will thou see in the creation of the Most
Gracious. And turn thy vision (upon it) once more, canst thou see any
flaw? Again turn thy vision a second time; (thy) vision will come back
to thee dull and discomfited, in a state worn out. “
( Q : Mulk: 67: 3 4 )


 The innumerable stars are continuously moving at extraordinary
speeds. Some moving singly, some in groups of two or more, while
innumerable stars are grouped in constellations.

 Have you not seen dust particles in a darken room when you allow a
small ray of light to shine through.
 Now imagine on a much larger scale!


 The difference is that dust particles collide and move in combination
whereas stars, notwithstanding their enormous numbers are at
immeasurable distances from each other and follow their respective
courses.
 Apart from this, the stars have their planets orbiting around it, and their
respective satellites or moon are also perpetually in motion following
their fixed orbits around the planets. Each planet also is rotating at
incredible speed on its own axis.

 It is amazing that all this motion is going on with a remarkable
organization and regularity.

 Neither do the stars collide, nor does their speed alter.

 The revolution of our earth around the sun, its rotation around its axis
and the movement of the moon around it, all are precisely timed.



 According to astronomical calculations, it has frequently happened
that entire galactic systems consisting of millions and millions of
moving stars have entered other galactic systems and have passed
right through them without colliding.



 In the face of all these evidence, human intellect is left with no option
but to accept that this is NOT a self -organised system, left to “chance ”.

 On the contrary it MUST be by a unique Power which set them up and
maintain such boundless and infinitely varied system.


 Those who insist that this creation happens from random
chance, surely, are resting on the most remotest of probability –
because it would be like admitting that order and harmony can
come out from disorder and anarchy!
 And remember when we they quote the ‘odds ’ of say : “one in a
million (or in fact more) “ – this is an admission of improbability –
that is : “how very remote that this is the outcome of mere chance .”


CONCLUSION

"Our Lord! not for naught hast Thou created (all) this!
Glory to Thee! Give us salvation from the penalty of the
Fire.”
(Qur’an: Aali ‘Imran: 3: 191)

CONCLUSION
 How stubbornly foolish! Nay, if we sincerely look within our
heart and mind, especially reinforced and supported by our pure
intuition (FITwRAH), these evidence prove clearly of the existence
of an absolute Creator and Sustainer.
 And there can only be One God Who is the Absolute - and to
deny this is to conceal or cover an obvious truth (the attitude
termed ‘KUFR’ ').
Na'uudzu billaah min dzaalik!

TO BE CONTINUED

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