Worship God Alone

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لَكِنَّ مَقْصُودَ أَهْلِ التَّحْقِيقِ كَالْجُنَيْدِ وَنَحْوِهِ أَنْ يَكُونَ هَذَا التَّوْحِيدُ لِلْعَبْدِ خُلُقًا وَمَقَامًا

However, what the people of realization, like Al-Junayd and his peers, mean is that this tawhid becomes for the servant a disposition and a station.

بِحَيْثُ يُعْطِيهِ ذَلِكَ كَمَا تَوَكُّلُهُ عَلَى اللَّهِ تَعَالَى وَتَفْوِيضُهُ إِلَيْهِ وَالصَّبْرُ لِحُكْمِهِ وَالرِّضَا بِقَضَائِهِ

Such that it gives him reliance on Allah the Exalted, entrusting matters to Him, patience with His ruling, and contentment with His decree.

مَا لَمْ يُخْرِجْهُ ذَلِكَ إِلَى إِسْقَاطِ الْأَمْرِ وَالنَّهْيِ وَالثَّوَابِ وَالْعِقَابِ وَالْوَعْدِ وَالْوَعِيدِ

As long as it does not lead him to dismiss command and prohibition, reward and punishment, promise and warning.

كَمَا يَقَعُ فِي بَعْضِ ذَلِكَ طَائِفَةٌ مِنَ الْمُتَصَوِّفَةِ

As happens with some groups of Sufis.

وَإِنَّمَا أَرَادَ تَحْقِيقَ تَوْحِيدِ الرُّبُوبِيَّةِ وَتَوْحِيدِ الْإِلَٰهِيةِ

Rather, he intended to realize tawhid al-rububiyyah (unity of lordship) and tawhid al-uluhiyyah (unity of worship).

وَهُوَ أَنْ يَعْبُدَ اللَّهَ وَحْدَهُ لَا يُشْرِكَ بِهِ شَيْئًا

And it means to worship Allah alone, associating nothing with Him.

فَهَذَا التَّوْحِيدُ الَّذِي جَاءَتْ بِهِ الرُّسُلُ

This is the monotheism with which the messengers were sent.

هُوَ يُسْعِدُ صَاحِبَهُ وَيُدْخِلُ الْجَنَّةَ لَا مَحَالَةَ لَهُ مِنْ دَعْوَةٍ مُجَابَةٍ

It brings happiness to its holder and he will enter Paradise without a doubt, and he will have a supplication that is answered.

وَمَنْ فَاتَهُ هَذَا التَّوْحِيدُ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَغْفِرُ أَنْ يُشْرَكَ بِهِ

And whoever misses this monotheism, indeed Allah does not forgive associating others with Him.

فَلَا يَنْفَعُهُ الدُّعَاءُ

So the supplication does not benefit him.

وَهَذَا هُوَ التَّوْحِيدُ الْمَذْكُورُ فِي قَوْلِ الْمَرَاغِي

And this is the monotheism mentioned in the statement of Al-Maraghi.

صَفَاءُ الْعِبَادَاتِ لَا يُنَالُ إِلَّا بِصَفَاءِ التَّوْحِيدِ

The purity of worship is attained only through the purity of monotheism.

وَأَمَّا قَوْلُ النُّورِيِّ

As for the statement of Al-Nuri

التَّوْحِيدُ كُلُّ خَاطِرٍ يُشِيرُ إِلَى اللهِ فَهُوَ يَعُمُّ ذَلِكَ

Monotheism is every thought that points to Allah, encompassing all of that.

يَقُولُ كُلُّ تَوَجُّهٍ إِلَى اللهِ وَحْدَهُ بِقَوْلٍ أَوْ عَمَلٍ فَهُوَ تَوْحِيدٌ

He says that every orientation to Allah alone, whether by word or action, is monotheism.

إِذَا لَمْ يَكُنْ فِيهِ تَشْبِيهُ الْخَالِقِ بِالْمَخْلُوقِ أَوْ الْمَخْلُوقِ بِالْخَالِقِ

If there is no likening of the Creator to the creation or the creation to the Creator.

كَمَا فِي قَول الْجَهْمِية والممثلة والقدرية وَنَحْوههم

As in the statements of the Jahmiyyah, the Mushabbihah, and the Qadariyyah and their likes.

وَقَدْ تَقَدَّمَ مَا ذَكَرَهُ الْمَشَايِخُ مِنْ نَفْيِ التَّشْبِيهِ وَالتَّعْطِيلِ

And what the shaykhs have mentioned regarding the negation of likening and nullification has already been addressed.