Introduction to Tauheed (AQA'ID

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“TAUHEED KHAALIQIYAH
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“INTRODUCTION TO STUDY OF
TAUHEED – (AQA’ID) ”
Intermediate Level Islamic course in English for Adults
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Updated 19 February 2014

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"(To know Allah) Think (and reflect) upon Allah's creation
(i.e. what He has created) and do not try to think in Allah
(His Essence: Dzat), for you will most certainly not be able
to comprehend it.“
(Al-Hadith)

TO CONTINUE


“Every child is born in a state of
Fitrah (pure innocence);
it is the parent that will make him
to be a Jew, or a Christian,
or a pagan (Majusi).”
(Hadith of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w.)

What do you call : “A person who does not know where he came
from, where he is now at, and where he is going to?”
Most people are like this person with amnesia – finding himself in a
palace surrounded with many luxuries which he Is free to indulge in,
yet seeing the absence of any owner, declare himself as the ‘king’ .
Or, some may sense that there must be a king or ‘ Owner’ of this
palace – yet can’t be bothered to realize that therefore he must be a
subject to that king and His sovereignty through servitude and
obedience.
Or there are others who may rely upon figment of their imagination
in ascribing wrongly who the true ‘king’ is – or are confused due to
ignorance or arrogance.

“O MANKIND! Worship your (ROBB) Sustainer, who
(KHALAQO-KUM) has created you and those who
lived before you, so that you might remain conscious
of Him who has made the earth a resting-place for
you and the sky a canopy, and has sent down water
from the sky and thereby brought forth fruits for
your sustenance: do not, then, claim that there is
any power that could rival Allah, when you know
[that He is One].”
(Qur’an: Baqarah: 2: 21-22)

For those with knowledge ……

“Of all His servants, only such as are endowed with (innate)
knowledge stand (truly) in awe of Allah: (for they alone
comprehend that) verily, Allah is Almighty, Much Forgiving.”
(Qur’an: Fatir 35 : 40)

The terms "TAUHEED AL-KHALIQ-QIYYAH" refers to
the approach of confirming the Oneness of God
(Allah) as the Creator (AL-KHAA-LIQ), verified from
the evidence inherent in the whole of creation.


“ALL PRAISE is due to Allah, (KHALAQAS-SAMA’) who has
created the heavens and the earth, and brought into being
deep darkness as well as light: and yet, those who are bent
on denying the truth regard other powers as their
Sustainer's equals! .He it is who (KHALAQA-KUM) has
created you out of clay, and then has decreed a term [for
you] - a term known [only] to him. And yet you doubt –”
(Qur’an: An-’am: 6: 1-2)


Although most people can easily acknowledge the God as
the CREATOR (KHAALIQ) of creation, and that this ‘ First
Cause ‘ is One, Unique – (TAUHEED).
Yet, after creation, many wrongly imagined or been misled
to believe that God then does not have the ultimate role of
being the LORD (AR-ROBB) Sustaining the whole world.
Many ascribe that He, like human, is merely watching over
this world from some celestial court (Anthropomorphism).

And to reject this false notion (conjecture) thus "TAUHEED
AR-RUB-BU-BIYYAH" is the approach of confirming that the
Oneness of God (Allah) is also as Him being the Sustainer or
Cherisher (AR-ROBB) , in the evidence of the wonderful
order and harmonious existence of all things in this
universe.
Without acknowledging this aspect, many had fallen into
SHIRK, ascribing to others as being also the Divine.

An invitation to reflect


An invitation to reflect
"Behold! In the creation of the heavens and the earth
and in the alternation of Night and Day, there are
indeed Signs for men of understanding,
Men who celebrate the praises of Allah, standing
sitting and lying down on their sides and contemplate
the wonders of creation in the heavens and the earth ,
(with a thought):
"Our Lord! You have not created this for nothing! Glory
to Thee! Give us salvation from the penalty of the
Fire."
(Qur’an : Ali Imran 3 : 190-191 )

The greatest evidence of Allah s.w.t., for us to confirm
and verify (both as the Creator and Sustainer) is the
whole of creation.

Nature and the study of nature both proclaim to us the
fact that there is one God Who, in His infinite Wisdom has
created and continues to sustain this universe.


The superb order, organization and meaningfulness of
the things in nature perceive by us cannot be explained
except that it must have been brought into existence by
a Creator Who also is constantly sustain it – God (Allah)
a Being with an infinite intelligence and not by a blind
force.


The highly complex order in things, the sophistication and
intricacies of design towards certain utility does not
portray haphazardness in nature but rather indicates a
"Will " of One Who is Able and Wise.


This is discernible by those who exercise their reasoning
faculty when observing nature, a characteristic which Allah
enjoins upon us Muslims to have and not to become
unmindful.
And Allah s.w.t. warns those who are heedless due to their
neglect of the apparent signs and deem them as beasts or
worse than that:

"Many are the Jinns (spirits) and men We have
made for Hell:
They have hearts wherewith they understand not,
eyes wherewith they see not, and ears wherewith
they hear not.
They are like cattle,- nay more misguided: for they
are heedless (of warning)."
( Qur’an : A'raf: 7 :179 )


"And on earth there are Signs (of Allah's existence, visible) to
all who are endowed with inner certainty, just as (there are
signs) thereof within your own selves: can you not then see? “
( Qur'an: Az-Dzariyat: 51 : 20-21 )

Can you not then see?

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Get into a different groupings - each not
more than 5 persons – and do a brief ta’aruf
(getting to know). Then discuss …
‘Miracles’ or signs of Allah’s existence are

“Let us discuss and
apply what we have
learnt”

everywhere to those who observe and reflect.
1.

As a group choose one aspect of the human
body/ anatomy / organ; analyze how it is
created, it’s function, its usefulness etc. to
discover that these could not have been there

HALAQAH

merely by ‘random chance’ .
You are given only 30 minutes to complete this assignment

THE EYE

THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

THE EAR

THE LIVER

THE BRAIN

THE PANCREAS

THE LUNGS

THE KIDNEYS

THE HEART

THE HUMAN SKIN


Say: “Can the blind be held equal to the seeing?
“ Will you then not think (consider)?
( Qur'an: An’am: 7: 50 )


Do you know ....

The eye is the world’s most efficient ‘television station’ : it takes in
flawless pictures in colour and transmits them without the least
blurring to the brain.
It takes a photographer to appreciate fully the working of the eye. Like
any camera it is in a small dark box, with an aperture in front filled
with a transparent pane (as a window).


Do you know ....

In front of this pane there is a shutter of variable speed, called ‘iris’,
with adjustable slit and automatic release.
Behind, there is the crystalline lens whose curvature is continually
adjusted by automatic muscles so that whatever is looked upon is
always sharply focus.
Six large powerful muscles control the movements of the eye and point
it in any desired direction.

Do you know ....

The delicate part of this precision instrument are kept clean by the
eye-lids, which are ‘window wipers’ and use a cleaning fluid
secreted by the gland at the corner of the eye and poured in
through a siphon.
A constant temperature is maintained, as in a laboratory with
highly sensitive apparatus, by means of a heat regulating
membrane called ‘choroid’.

Do you know ....

The photographic plate of the eye is a small screen at the back, called
‘retina’, on to which the images of the things we see are focussed.
The retina can take 10 different pictures each second – 800,000
pictures a day, wiping itself clean after each.
It is so fast that 30,000 separate points of light can be recorded by a
single square millimetre (the size of a nail-head) of its surface.


Do you know ....

All the pictures are in vivid colour,
with sharp outlines, and delicate
shading; they are, besides, movies
in three dimension (3-D), thanks to
the stereoscopic focus of the two
eyeballs on our head.


Do you know ....

Long before man discovered wireless, the ear ‘knew’ all that was to be
known about the reception of sound waves.

The human ear consists of a funnel beautifully adapted to pick up
sounds and equipped with fleshy folds which enable it to perceive the
direction from which the sound comes.


Do you know ....

Inside the ear, fine hairs and a sticky wax prevent harmful insects,
dust, etc. from getting in.

Across the inner end of the funnel there is a tightly stretched
membrane, the ear-drum, which vibrates like the skin of the tabla
(Indian percussion instrument) when sound waves strike it.


Do you know ....

The vibrations are then passed on and amplified by three bones
(the hammer, the stirrup and the anvil) whose relative sizes are
precisely adjusted to produce just the needed amplification.
Indeed, these bones never grow.

Amazingly, these bones are of exactly the same size as in the infant
and in the adult.

Do you know ....

The amplified vibrations are carried by the bones to another
membrane just beyond which lies the wonderful organ of hearing,
the inner ear.

This is a small tube (the cochlea) coiled up like the shell of a snail,
and filled with a liquid in which a harp of 6,000 strings ranging in
length from 1/20 to ½ mm, hang suspended.

Do you know ....

Each string vibrates to a particular frequency of sound so that the
ear can hear all possible combinations of 6,000 different sounds.


Do you know ....

The vibration of the strings are transmitted to 18,000 nerve cells
whose fibres communicate with the brain.


The Brain is the centre which controls, directs and coordinates the
varied activities of all the innumerable organs of the body.

It receives messages from each of the senses, interprets them, sends
the proper replies to the organs concerned so that the body reacts
appropriately, and registers all the information received in the
storage memory.


Think of a huge telephone exchange in continual contact with
every man, woman and child on earth, sending and receiving
messages to and from each other one every few seconds -and
you have a faint idea of the incredibly complex organization of
the brain.


In the white and grey matter of the brain there are nearly a
thousand million nerve cells.

Each is an electric battery and a small telegraph transmitter. Each
cell branches out into a number of fine conducting threads, the
nerve fibres, which extend to all parts of the body.


A large number of them run down the hollow backbone, twisted
together into a thick cable, the spinal cord. Admirably, this is
protected by the bony and wellcushioned walls of the spine.
Through these tiny threads, each of which is covered with an
insulating sheath, a current flows at the speed of about 70 m.p.h.,
carrying messages through and from the brain, with marvellous
speed and accuracy.


There is an elaborate system of relays, condensers, switches
etc .. (to use technical terms), which permits the transmission of
the most unexpected messages between the brain and each of
the millions of cells it controls, without the least confusion or
delay.


Obvious conclusion

From the foregoing, we cannot imagine that the brain is just a
lump of matter, accidently placed in our head!

On the contrary, it is invested with profound significance for
which we should exclaim glorification, "SubhaanAllah!
Alhamdulillaah! Mashaa-Allaah! Allahu Akbar!“


Obvious conclusion
Empirical science can only explain the "how" or the workings of
physics, but never the "why" whose meaning lies in metaphysic.
Why does it work that way? It must be because of an irresistible
"Will", that must have prepared it for its future functional use
outside the womb.
The scientific fact shows that its existence and sustainment
requires a "Will" or an "Intelligent Being” who is both its Creator
and the Sustainer.

Obvious conclusion

It is impossible for anything so meaningful and complex and yet
orderly in its function to exist without the need for God (Allah),
the Absolute One God, Who is the Creator, Sustainer, Nourisher
of the Universe.


"Were they created of nothing, or were they themselves
the creators? “
(Qur'an: Surah Tur: 51: 35)


The Lungs

Who created the lungs? Does it simply come out of nothing (i.e. mere
random chance)?

These are organs which bring the blood into contact with clean fresh
air – ‘as if they knew’, long before we ourselves were aware of the
fact, that to purify the blood nothing is better than a good bath of
oxygen.

The Lungs

At each breath, air is drawn into more than 1,500,000 little air sacs
in the lungs, which if spread out would cover an area of some 200
square yards the size of a nice little vegetable plot.


The Lungs

These little balloonlike sacs are made of a thin elastic tissue which
allows air to pass through but prevents blood from oozing in.

The blood is carried to the lungs through 50,000,000,000 tiny hair thin
tubes which form a close network all along the outside of the little
balloons of the lungs.


The Lungs

Each day they bring in some 10,000 litres of blood. Oxygen is
sucked in by the red blood cells, while waste products of the
body like carbon dioxide and water are given up by the
blood, pass into the little air sacs, and are breathed out.


The Lungs

As long as a child is in the womb of its mother, its lungs do not
function, and the flow of blood is turned away from the lungs by
means of a special little door in the heart.

As soon as it is born, the baby, who is on the verge of suffocation,
utters a loud cry. The cry produces a whole series of wonderful
changes.

The Lungs

The great bags of the lungs open and air rushes in to fill them.
A great flow of blood is drawn into the lungs which like a
violent draught of air slams shut the little door inside the heart
which had hitherto turned the blood away.
This brings us to yet, another amazing organ – the heart. Can
this be mere coincidence?

The heart is a small organ, about the size of a fist, weighing not more
than eight ounces, yet this small pump can work prodigiously.
It keeps pumping day and night for a whole lifetime without the least
pause; rating some 100,000 strokes a day; and sending about a gallon
of blood circulating through the body once every 13 seconds.
In a single day the heart pumps enough blood to fill a goodsized oil
truck; and in a single year it could fill a train of 65 large oil wagons.


The heart is specially built for the immense job
it has to do.
Its walls are made up of very tough muscular
fibres, and it is surrounded by a double
membrane (pericardium) containing a fluid
which lubricates its continual movement.
The beat of the heart takes place in two steps
as first the upper and then the lower half
contracts.

This enables each half of the heart to rest while
the other half is beating.
Inside the heart are four chambers, two upper
chambers called ‘auricles’ and two lower
chambers called ‘ventricles’.
Blood always flow from the auricles to the
ventricles, and this oneway traffic is maintained
by the umbrellashaped valves which guard the
openings between the chambers.

"And how many an animal there is that bears not
its own provision! Allah provides for it and for
you. He is the Hearer, the Knower.
And if thou were to ask them: Who created the
heavens and the earth, and constrained the sun
and the moon (to their appointed work)? they
would say: ‘Allah’ (God).
How then are they turned away? “
(Qur'an: Ankabut: 29: 60-61)


Food Digestion

The digestive system can be looked upon as a
factory where food is tasted by the tongue, then
crushed by the teeth, moistened with saliva and
finally, after elaborate precautions to avoid
shunting mistakes, is pushed through the gullet
into the stomach.

Food Digestion

Stomach is like a chemical plant where the most astonishing
changes occur: Here millions of cells, too small to be seen,
produce a dozen highly complex chemicals which break up the
food we have eaten, whether it be meat, spinach, or rice, or
cheese, into simpler substances which can be absorbed by the
cells of our body and built up into our flesh and bone.


Food Digestion

The chemical changes that take place are truly marvellous well
beyond the capacity of the best equipped of our laboratories.
And there are five million of these little chemical units in the
stomach, some forty million in the intestines, and more than
three and a half billion in the liver.


Food Digestion

Another amazing organ – the liver
‘the super chemical plant’

They produce, not only the chemicals needed to digest our food,
where and when required, but also effective remedies against
diseases like cholera and dysentery.
At the same time the liver manufactures substances which help
the body to burn some of the food we have eaten to provide the
heat and energy every living being needs.

Another amazing organ – the liver
‘the super chemical plant’

Food Digestion

The liver also, together with the spleen are organs which
produces our ‘blood’.

Another amazing organ – the pancreas
another chemical plant’

Linked into this system is our ‘pancreas’ – which produces
insulin – the lack of which in our body may cause sugar
level to poison our bloodstream.

Food Digestion
Thus the digestive system is not only a chemical factory, but a
power house as well. For through this, energy and nutrition are
derived from the food we partake.
It is also efficient in separating toxins to be discharge by another
system, while it converts and breakdown substances by a
complex chemistry involving acids, enzymes, protein, etc.
Even in the ‘waste discharge system’ it is efficient.

Largest internal organ

Your liver is your largest internal organ. A big blood vessel, called the
“portal vein”, carries nutrientrich blood from your small intestine
directly to your liver.


Chemical processing factory
“Hepatic cells” make up about 60 percent of your liver tissue. These
specialised liver cells carry out more chemical processes than any
other group of cells in your body. They change most of the nutrients
you consume into forms your body cells can use.


Its functions:
 Convert sugars and store and release them as needed, thereby
regulating your blood sugar level
 Break down fats and produce cholesterol;
 Remove ammonia from your body and produce blood proteins,
including blood clotting factors;
 Detoxify drugs and alcohol;
 Produce “bile”, which breaks down fats in the food your eat

Do you know ...?
The pancreas is a vital organ that is part of the complex human
digestive and endocrine systems.

It manufactures and secretes digestive enzymes such as amylase,
which digests starch. It also produces lipase, which breaks down fats,
and trypsin, a protein processor.


Do you know ...?
The pancreas also creates and secretes insulin, glucagon and other
hormones.
Insulin and glucagon are especially important for the maintenance of
blood sugar, as insulin lowers the blood sugar and glucagon increases
the blood sugar according to the body's needs.
Injury or disease of the pancreas can result in severe illness and
possibly death.

The kidneys are a pair of vital organs that perform many functions to
keep the blood clean and chemically balanced.

They are bean-shaped organs, each about the size of a fist. They are
located near the middle of the back, just below the rib cage, one on
each side of the spine.


The kidneys are sophisticated reprocessing machines. Every day, a
person’s kidneys process about 200 quarts of blood to sift out about 2
quarts of waste products and extra water.

The wastes and extra water become urine, which flows to the bladder
through tubes called ureters. The bladder stores urine until releasing it
through urination.

Wastes in the blood come from the normal breakdown of active
tissues, such as muscles, and from food. The body uses food for
energy and self-repairs. After the body has taken what it needs from
food, wastes are sent to the blood.

If the kidneys did not remove them, these wastes would build up in
the blood and damage the body.

The actual removal of wastes occurs in tiny units inside the kidneys
called nephrons. Each kidney has about a million nephrons.

In the nephron, a glomerulus —which is a tiny blood vessel, or
capillary—intertwines with a tiny urine-collecting tube called a tubule.


The glomerulus acts as a filtering unit, or sieve, and keeps normal
proteins and cells in the bloodstream, allowing extra fluid and wastes
to pass through.

A complicated chemical exchange takes place, as waste materials and
water leave the blood and enter the urinary system.


At first, the tubules receive a combination of waste materials and
chemicals the body can still use. The kidneys measure out chemicals
like sodium, phosphorus, and potassium and release them back to the
blood to return to the body.
In this way, the kidneys regulate the body’s level of these substances.
The right balance is necessary for life.

In addition to removing wastes, the kidneys release three important
hormones:
- erythropoietin, or EPO, which stimulates the bone marrow to make
red blood cells;
- renin, which regulates blood pressure;
- calcitriol, the active form of vitamin D, which helps maintain calcium
for bones and for normal chemical balance in the body.

The Skin, with its vast network of sensitive fibres spread over the
body's surface is equally fascinating.

The moment a hot object comes in contact with our skin, or even
comes close to it, about thirty thousand hot cells feel it, and instantly
report it to the brain.


Similarly, there are 250,000 "cord cells" within our skin which crowd
the brain with messages as soon as contact is made with a cold object.

The body then begins to shiver and veins in the skin become dilated in
order to make up for the loss of warmth in the body. When intense
heat is "reported" to the brain, three million perspiration glands are
activated to release the cool fluid we recognise as perspiration.


The nervous system is divided into different parts, one of them being
the autonomic branch, which deals with reflex functions that are
performed within our body, such as digestion, respiration, heart beats
and so on.


This autonomic branch is further subdivided into two systems: the
sympathetic system, which causes activity and the parasympathetic
system, which serves as a brake.

If our body were under the exclusive control of the sympathetic
system, the heart would beat so rapidly that death would result.


And if our body were left to the mercy of the parasympathetic system,
the beating of our heart would be totally arrested.

Both these systems function in perfect co-ordination with each other.


Whenever our body is exposed to excessive stress and strain, causing
a sudden need for extra strength to withstand it, the sympathetic
system dominates, making the lungs function more rapidly, and
pumping adrenalin into the system from which the body may derive
extra energy.


But while we are asleep, the parasympathetic system has the upper
hand, anaesthetizing all our bodily activities.


After observing so many wonderful organs in ourselves, each
organ is prepared with such complexity and amazingly equipped
to function in such a manner to sustain us - and these are
outside our conscious ability to directly manage them, but
somehow are being managed for us - surely, we have to
concede of the power of Allah, the Creator and Sustainer.


Who designed them? and Whose power Sustains and continue to
manifest a Will over them for us?
To deny this is sheer arrogance and surely preposterous to
merely ascribe it to 'nature'.
And what is 'nature'? An unknown entity, devoid of any
attribution of Will nor intelligence. ... Yet they imply that it can
sustain us !??

How stubbornly foolish! Nay, if we sincerely look within our heart
and mind, especially reinforced and supported by our pure
intuition (fitrah), these evidence prove clearly of the existence of
an absolute Creator and Sustainer.
And there can only be One Who is the Absolute - and to deny this
is to conceal or cover an obvious truth (the attitude termed 'kufr').
Na-'uudzu billaah min dzaalik!

TO BE CONTINUED

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