ONENESS OF AL-LAH (TAUHID)

LESSONS IN ISLAM

(Ta’limul-Islam)

BOOK IV

SECTION I

BISMIL-LAHIR-RAHMANIR-RAHIM

(In the name of Al-lah, the Beneficent, the Merciful)

ONENESS OF AL-LAH (TAUHID)

Q.   What does the term “Al-lah” mean?

  Al-lah is the name of that Being (God) who is wajib-ul-wujud (self-existent) and combines in Him all the perfect Attributes.

Q.   What does the term “wajib-ul-wujud” mean?

  Wajib-ul-wujud is that One whose existence is a must and non-existence impossible. Anyone who is wajib-ul-wujud is eternal. He has no beginning and no end. He can never be non-existent. He is self-existent. For anything which owes its existent to some other agency cannot be wajib-ul-wujud. Thus, according to Islamic belief, the Almighty Al-lah is wajib-ul-wujud. Nothing else in the world can be self-existent.