The Oneness

الْوَاحِدُ

Al-Wāḥid — The One

قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ

Say: He is Allah, the One

Surah Al-Ikhlāṣ (112:1)

Intention

Today, I will identify one thing I have given too much power to — a person’s opinion, a fear, an ambition — and return that power to the One.

Reflection

Al-Wāḥid is The One — singular, undivided, without partner. In a world of competing loyalties and fragmented attention, Al-Wāḥid is the call to unity. One God, one direction, one ultimate loyalty. The simplicity of tawḥīd is not reductive — it is liberating. When everything points to One, nothing can enslave you.

On this verse

Four verses. The entire theology of Islam compressed into four verses. He is One. He is the Eternal Refuge. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is nothing comparable to Him.

Du'a

The declaration of tawḥīd. When you say it, you declare independence from every false power.

Hadith

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “Whoever says Lā ilāha illallāh sincerely from his heart will enter Paradise.”

— Sunan an-Nasā’ī (graded ṣaḥīḥ by al-Albānī)