Talk:Tawhid

Etymology

Should there be a section on etymology of the word "Tawheed". I'm trying one. Please list the problems here after I have made my edit — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abdullah Al Wasif (talk • contribs) 12:27, 2015 April 16 (UTC)

Note from history-merger

• While history-merging Tawhīd to Tawhid, I found an independent second start to writing an article about tawhīd, attached to the start (old end) of Tawhid's history. I moved this second article to Tawhid (version 2). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:39, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

'more generally Tahwid is used to connote unification union fusion combination (15)

This is incorrect and will no doubt be used by Trinitarians to support their position.

God is ONE and the meaning has not changed throughout the millenia ! One means one!! Tawhid in Arabic

               Echad in Arabic!

2C0F:F8F0:204:0:5575:57A4:B972:A29F (talk) 10:02, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Out of context and misleading quote

The article currently reads "From an Islamic standpoint, there is an uncompromising monotheism at the heart of the Islamic beliefs (aqidah) which is seen as distinguishing Islam from other major religions." (Turner (2006), p. 75.) While the pronouncement is referenced to Turner, it's actually incorrect as applied to Judaism. See Monotheism#Judaism and Jewish principles of faith#Monotheism. Furthermore, aside from being incorrect, the Turner statement in the article is taken out of context. Here's the full quote from Turner: "There is, as many Western writers have pointed out, an uncompromising monotheism at the heart of the Islamic endeavour which distinguishes Islam from other major religions. This is not to say that, in theory at least, the oneness of God is any less a reality in Christianity and Judaism than it is in Islam. In practice, however, the emphasis on Divine Unity in Muslim theology far outweighs the attention paid to this concept by theologians of other faiths."

In that sentence of Tawhid it's strongly implied that Islam is uncompromisingly monotheistic to the exclusion of Judaism (or Christianity). What Turner actually claims, however, is that uncompromising monotheism, though not unique to Islam, is given greater attention and emphasis than in other faiths.

Instead of revising that above sentence in Tawhid to not be out of context and misleading, it should frankly be deleted. Turner not only lacks firm support for his implication that Judaism doesn't properly believe in Tawhid, but is flat out wrong in his claim. By the millions, when Jews say God is one, it is one in the sense of Tawhid, just as Muslims by the hundreds of millions intend in saying that God is one. No less a religious authority than Maimonides lists as principles essential to Judaism "the existence of God, the absolute unity of God, the incorporeality of God" (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/maimonides/) and devotes tremendous attention to the philosophy of this. Someone reading Tawhid as it's currently written would walk away thinking that Islam is unique in Tawhid, when in fact Jewish and Islamic theology do not differ in this respect.

There are many fundamental differences between Judaism and Islam; Tawhid is not one of them, but a common denominator. Contributor613 (talk) 05:22, 17 December 2021 (UTC)