Core tenet of Islam
There is no god but God.
Tawhid: absolute unity — no partners, no images, no exceptions. The first half of the shahada.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Tawhid — the absolute oneness of God — is Islam's center of gravity; every other doctrine is a corollary. Its negative is shirk, associating partners with God, the one offense the Quran calls unforgivable if unrepented. The shahada's first clause is a metaphysics in seven Arabic syllables.
From the sources — the passages this rests on; concise renderings, cited
Say: He is God, the One; God, the Eternal. He begets not, nor was He begotten, and there is none comparable to Him.
Quran 112 — Surat al-IkhlasA four-verse chapter said to equal a third of the Quran.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
God is one, indivisible, and engaged with history.
Judaism
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God is one, beyond form.
Sikhism
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God's name is Jehovah, and he is one person.
Jehovah's Witnesses
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God is One, beyond every description.
The Druze Faith
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Shiva — a point of light that is never born.
The Brahma Kumaris · figure
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Shangdi is the one God, and the idols are demons.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
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