According to Dr Sharib:
"Al-Wahid is the One Who is unique in His person, in His attributes, and
in His actions. He has no equal."
To emulate the name we are advised to remove from our mind any idea
of duality.
Appropriate recitation leads to the purification of the heart. It saves the
heart from the fear of anyone.
Appropriate use of the name can enable a childless person to have a
good healthy child.
see 'The 99 Most Beautiful Names of Allah' by Dr Zahurul Hassan Sharib
Some other references:
Leave Me alone (to deal)
With the (creature) whom
I created (bare and) alone.
Your God is one God;
there is no God but Him,
the All Merciful,
the All Compassionate.
Al-Ghazali says that the name refers to the one who cannot be divided
nor duplicated. It is like a unitary substance. In the same way that a point
has no parts, God's essence cannot be arranged in parts. It cannot be
duplicated because it can have no equal in eternity.
As far as man's share in this name goes, a man may be unique in some
particular quality having no peer in that quality but at some time another
man may emerge who has similair claim to such a quality. Therefore
absolute uniqueness belongs only to God.
(see - Al-Ghazali - The Ninety-nine Beautiful Names of God. Trans. Burrel/Daher: ITS: 1992.)
Hazrat Ibn-Arabi says:
"Praise be to God before whose oneness there was not a before, unless
the Before were He, and after whose singleness there is not an after
except the After be He. He is and there is with Him no after or before,
nor above or below, nor far nor near, nor union nor division. Nor how, nor
where, nor when, nor times, nor moment, nor age, nor being, nor place.
And He is now as He was. He is the One without oneness, and the
Single without singleness. He is not composed of name and named, for
His name is He and His named is He. So there is no name other than
He, nor named. And so He is the Name and the Named."
"Whoso Knoweth Himself":
translation from Risale-t-ul-wujudiyyah by T. H. Weir. Beshara Publications .1976
Sheikh Tosun Bayrak says: "Allah is One. He has no partner in His
essence, in His attributes, in His actions, in His orders, or in His beautiful
names."
It seems that uniqueness is a quality of all things since no thing can be
duplicated in its totality. Certain qualities of a thing - its shape, its colour
etc, or even all its distinguishable qualities (as in cloning?), can be
shared - but the actuality or specificity of a thing cannot be duplicated -
the most we can really say is that one thing is similair to another due to
its shared qualities.
If this be true of creation what can be said of the uniqueness of the One
Who created and maintains the existence of all things, Whose quality of
uniqueness is the unchanging source and origin of the unique
individuality of all things, and to Whom no thing can be compared.
The Holy Prophet Muhammed made a beautiful prayer: "Show me the
reality of things as they really are".
JMZ
"Al-Wahid is the One Who is unique in His person, in His attributes, and
in His actions. He has no equal."
To emulate the name we are advised to remove from our mind any idea
of duality.
Appropriate recitation leads to the purification of the heart. It saves the
heart from the fear of anyone.
Appropriate use of the name can enable a childless person to have a
good healthy child.
see 'The 99 Most Beautiful Names of Allah' by Dr Zahurul Hassan Sharib
Some other references:
Leave Me alone (to deal)
With the (creature) whom
I created (bare and) alone.
Your God is one God;
there is no God but Him,
the All Merciful,
the All Compassionate.
Al-Ghazali says that the name refers to the one who cannot be divided
nor duplicated. It is like a unitary substance. In the same way that a point
has no parts, God's essence cannot be arranged in parts. It cannot be
duplicated because it can have no equal in eternity.
As far as man's share in this name goes, a man may be unique in some
particular quality having no peer in that quality but at some time another
man may emerge who has similair claim to such a quality. Therefore
absolute uniqueness belongs only to God.
(see - Al-Ghazali - The Ninety-nine Beautiful Names of God. Trans. Burrel/Daher: ITS: 1992.)
Hazrat Ibn-Arabi says:
"Praise be to God before whose oneness there was not a before, unless
the Before were He, and after whose singleness there is not an after
except the After be He. He is and there is with Him no after or before,
nor above or below, nor far nor near, nor union nor division. Nor how, nor
where, nor when, nor times, nor moment, nor age, nor being, nor place.
And He is now as He was. He is the One without oneness, and the
Single without singleness. He is not composed of name and named, for
His name is He and His named is He. So there is no name other than
He, nor named. And so He is the Name and the Named."
"Whoso Knoweth Himself":
translation from Risale-t-ul-wujudiyyah by T. H. Weir. Beshara Publications .1976
Sheikh Tosun Bayrak says: "Allah is One. He has no partner in His
essence, in His attributes, in His actions, in His orders, or in His beautiful
names."
It seems that uniqueness is a quality of all things since no thing can be
duplicated in its totality. Certain qualities of a thing - its shape, its colour
etc, or even all its distinguishable qualities (as in cloning?), can be
shared - but the actuality or specificity of a thing cannot be duplicated -
the most we can really say is that one thing is similair to another due to
its shared qualities.
If this be true of creation what can be said of the uniqueness of the One
Who created and maintains the existence of all things, Whose quality of
uniqueness is the unchanging source and origin of the unique
individuality of all things, and to Whom no thing can be compared.
The Holy Prophet Muhammed made a beautiful prayer: "Show me the
reality of things as they really are".
JMZ
| Bismillah ir Rehman ir Rahim |
| The Unique He Who is Uniquely One. |
Zarnii wa man khalaqtu
waahiidaa! -
(Qur'an 74: 11)
waahiidaa! -
(Qur'an 74: 11)
| Al-Wahid (Al-Waahid) Qur'an 74:11 & 2:163 |
Wa 'Ilaahukum
'Ilaahunw-Waahid:
aa 'ilaaha 'illa
Huwar-Rahmaa-nur-Rahim.
Qur'an: Sura 2:163
'Ilaahunw-Waahid:
aa 'ilaaha 'illa
Huwar-Rahmaa-nur-Rahim.
Qur'an: Sura 2:163
