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2 unusual facts about Tawhid


Tawhid

William Chittick and Sachiko Murata (2006), The Vision of Islam, Publisher:I.B.Tauris, ISBN 1-84511-320-9

There is no god but God

Tawhid, the Muslim concept of the oneness and uniqueness of God


Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī

He was born in a poor family that works in the sale a sort of dates called Tawhid (hence his surname comes), and spent the rest of his childhood as an orphan in bail of his uncle which was always offending him.

Maturidi

Both the Ash'aris and Maturidis follow occasionalism, a philosophy which refutes the basis for causality, as David Hume did in Europe many centuries later, but also proves the existence and nature of the Islamic belief of the tawhid (oneness of God) through formal logic.


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