The Concept of Allah

• Tawhid


  A belief in Allah as a monotheistic deity
• Shahadah


  What Muslims pray when they revert to announce their belief in tawhid
• The Shahadah is the first pillar of Islam and whispered into Muslim babies' ears and the dying
• Because of tawhid, worshipping idols is forbidden because nothing should be valued above Allah
• Shirk


  Idol worship, considered the greatest sin
• Allah


  • All-powerful (omnipotent)
  • All-loving (omnibenevolent)
  • All-seeing (omniscient)
• Muslims use 99 names for Allah because they can never comprehend God and each name represents a quality of Allah
• Immanent and transcendent


  Close by and outside of time and space simultaneously
• Aslan: 'God is unity'