The meaning of the word Tauhid
Tauhid brought the meaning of knowing, proclaiming, confessing, witnessing and believing that there is no other gods worth to be worshiped except Allah (the Holy G-d) alone. Other than Him have no right to be worshiped (served) and they are not the true G-d.
The word Tauhid covers the proclamation by heart, oral proclamation, and verbal acts as the proof to Holy G-d that there is no gods but solely Holy G-d.
1. What is Tauhid Rububiyya?
It means that we believe Allah (the Holy G-d) is with One characteristic, means He is solely One when He Creates and Preserving, and He is the only Lord of the Universe.
The deeper meaning of Tauhid ar-Rububiyya
The word ar-Rububiyya is from the root word Rabb whic means:
1. as-Sayyid (the Lord)
2. al-Maalik (the Possessor/the King)
3. the Creator
4. The Administrator
5. The Educator
6. The Guardian
7. The One Who Takes Care
8. The Supreme Chief
Holy G-d's characteristics is Absolute. It won't change and will never change forever.
As for human, if they possess something or powerful, those characteristics will not last long as they are temporary. Everything in the Universe is G-d's possession. What we have as His creatures solely borrowed to us and Majazi (metaphorical). Only G-d as the Lord of Universe is with whole Perfect characteristics. Every creature is dependent to Him, praying for intercession from Him, and placing all of hopes to Him due to His Perfect characteristics.
Human, if they are clever, intelligent, and smart, those things are from Holy G-d. The luxury and the possession of humans over something is not absolute as they are all from G-d.
Humans are created as creatures. Humans have nothing, except that every act, breath, and the force that had been granted by G-d to them.
G-d is all Powerful, in creating, in the matters of life and death. He is the One Who has the authority in benefiting and harming. If He desires benefits and goodness over someone, nobody can prevent Him from His Will. If G-d's Will over someone that he will be affected by evil or danger, nobody can prevent or stop Him too.
Allah is the only One who is mutafarriq. Mutafarriq means the One with the authority to bring benefits (goodness) and dangers (evil).
G-d says in Quran:
"If G-d touch thee with affliction, none can remove it but He; if He touch thee with happiness, He hath the Power over all things.
(translation of Surah al-An'am, 6th, verse 17)
Those characteristics of G-d too are among the source of Tauhid.
Fear only Allah, and acting with courage due to the confidence and trust in Holy G-d.
I can see that the word Fear G-d, had been used by certain Christian scholars to emphasize that Islam is the religion of Fear G-d, while Christianity emphasizes Love. We Muslim do Love G-d, we also Fear G-d. We love Him as the Preserver who grant us blessings that we can live peacefully and others. We fear G-d because we fear the burdens in the Hereafter and punishment from Him if we commit sins (lying, killing, associating Him with Evil or Thaghut, and others).
Humans are with Pauper characteristics
Humans in the earth are with the pauper characteristic (possess nothing), and also dependent to the help from G-d.
G-d says in Hadiths Qudsi (Holy Hadiths):
"O human, you are all in the dark except if those whom I grant guidance and success to them. Thus, ask for My guidance!"
"O human, you are all hungry, except those whom I grant foods, thus ask for food (look in the wider context, not only bread) from Me!"
"O human, you are all naked, except those whom I granted with clothes. Thus ask for clothes from Me."
(Holy Hadiths is revealed by Gabriel to Muhammad but it is not apart of Quran, it is different from the Acts of prophet which is also known as Hadiths)
The characteristic of rich and pauper
Necessity toward something is the characteristic of human. Human, animal, plants, and other creatures all needs G-d. So, all of the creatures are with the characteristics of the poor.
G-d is the only Rich. He needs nothing. If human have the confidence like this to G-d, they will not think bad about G-d or blaming G-d if they face trials and tribulations.
"O ye men! It is ye that need of G-d: but G-d is the One Free from all wants, Worthy of all praise.
(Translation of Surah Fathir, 35th, verse 15 by Abdullah Yusuf Ali)
Pauper is the dzati characteristic of the creations of G-d. Rich is the dzati characteristic of al-Khaaliq (the Creator).
Proofs of Tauhid ar-Rububiyya:
There are many proofs that G-d is One and no others equal to Him in the term of Rububiyya (Lordship). Among them:
1. When we see the words on the black board, there must be somebody who scratched it. The person with healthy thinking will think that everything in this world must have the fabricator.
2. Everything in the Universe, from the detail tiniest size to the biggest witnessing that Holy G-d is the Lord of the Universe. He has the authority over the creations in the Universe.
3. The manner this Universe being arranged is so amazing. Beautiful, and detail that proofs the Perfect characteristic of G-d. If the Universe speaks, they will proclaim themselves as the creation of G-d. The people with healthy mind will say that the Universe is created by the Powerful G-d. Nobody will say that those things naturally happened and exist. Well, we have Atheists, everything exist naturally, it's up to them, they too can think.
All of these proofs the magnificent knowledge of G-d. We may observe the creation of human-being. Their detail anatomy and see on how detail it is the creation of G-d. Well, Europeans had already involved in artistic Arts during the Enlightment period, I'm sure European and Western people are quite good in Humanistic arts that made some of them became Atheists. We have Atheists too in majority Muslim countries like Indonesia and also Malaysia. Also in Thailand, majority Buddhists don't believe G-d but they still practicing a religion.
There are also various creations of G-d with different characteristics and appearances between one another. All of them clearly shows that G-d is the Wisest. There are branches of sciences like physics, chemistry, biology, and etc with various uncountable sub-branches of sciences and philosophy, we Muslim used them to search G-d, but Atheist claimed those sciences proved that G-d is not exist, that is our difference
The nature of proclaiming the Lordship of G-d
The proclamation and confession the Lordship of G-d is acceptable. The fact is reflected in the nature of human-being. Non-believers with too proclaiming the Lordship of G-d.
"If thou ask them, who created them? They will certainly say: G-d: How then they are deluded away (from Truth)?
(The meaning of Surah Zukhruf, 43rd, verse 87 by Abdullah Yusuf Ali)
"If thou wert to question them, "Who created the heavens and the earth?" They would be surely reply. "They were created by (Him), the Exalted in Power, Full of Knowledge' -
(The meaning of Surah Zukhruf, verse 9 by Abdullah Yusuf Ali)
It's actually not so complicated to prove the Lordship of G-d. The nature of every human is the proof of Him. The polytheists and the ungrateful human too realize about the Lordship of G-d the Creator.
al-Quran affirmed the existance of G-d's Lordship in humans' soul.
al-Quran reminds us about the nature or the soul of humans had already filled with the feeling to proclaim the Lordship of G-d, the Lord of the Universe.
G-d says:
"Their messengers said: "Is there a doubt about G-d, the Creator of the heavens and the earth? It is He Who invites you, in order that He may forgive you your sins and give you respite for a term appointed!" They said: "Ah! Ye are no more than human, like ourselves! Ye wish to turn us away from (the gods) our fathers used to worship: then bring us some clear authority!"
(the meaning of Surah Ibrahim, chapter 14th, verse 10 by Abdullah Yusuf Ali)
"And they rejected those Signs in iniquity and arrogance, though their souls were convinced thereof: so see what was the end of those who acted corruptly."
(the meaning of Surah an-Naml chap 27:14 by AYA)
The refusal and the objections of some humans to proclaim the existance of G-d as the Creator is actually determined by their arrogance, stubborn, and closing their own heart. As the matter of fact, the soul of human or the nature of human can't be empty from the deep feeling in proclaiming the existance of G-d the Creator.
If the nature and the soul of humans is clean from arrogance, stubbornness, and the scums that came from their evil thinking, spontaneously they will straight directing themselves toward G-d without difficulties to make any choice. Spontaneously their tongue will articulate G-d and asking helps from Him.
It is human behavior that when they are in dangerous situation that nothing will be crossing his mind except G-d. At that time, his thinking and senses will only be directed to G-d. Well, we can see when Lenin almost fall, he had asked the churches to strike their bells, and the mosque to loudly calling for prayers. Isn't he a non-believer of G-d Lordship? His daughter too converted to Russian Orthodox Christianity and migrating the US when her father lost in the war. Where is their Atheism?
So, this confirmed what G-d says in Quran:
"When a wave covers them like the canopy (of clouds), they call to G-d, offering Him sincere devotion. But when He has delivered them safely to land, there are amongst them who halt between (right and wrong). But none reject Our signs except only a perfidious ungrateful (wretch)!"
(the meaning of Surah Luqman 31:32 by AYA)
Indeed the problems about the existance of G-d is not really complicated. It is obvious, clear, simple, and easy. There are many proofs and events that had happened through out human's history.
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