Understanding the ’Oneness’ of God

As' Alaamu Alaikum

In the name of God, the infinitely good, the rmerciful

When we discuss the Oneness of God perhaps we should reflect on the wisdom of Tawhid as there is much to learn regarding the Oneness of God. When we discuss his 'oneness' we discuss the singular being in which all things exist from. We also include the principle attribute in which all things that come from depend on. More importantly we also talk about the being in which all life forms existing and non-existing or in potentia become "more or less" cognizant of.

But when we discuss the 'Oneness' of God we must understanad that there is some limitations to saying One. In saying "there is one God" is nothing more than saying there is One person in a room. It is basically an exclusionary term applied to a person or deity in this case. Of course God being the Almighty Creator is one, however our numeric table is finite and shouldn't be attrbuted to God, but liek most language most of what we say does not give God the full glory. But the best way to at least come ads close as possible is to linguistically apply terms that would best describe the infinite being.

Also in understanding that there are other various monotheistic faiths which presuppose the oneness of God our language should also be inclusive to them as well. For when we say "There is One true God" it therefore follows "Our God is the only true God." An alternative to this would be "There is one true principle." When we say 'principle' I do not mean just a doctrine or code of law, I mean that there is a rule in which it is uncreated but is constant and it is a guide for other laws. It is the primary source of all things and it is constant, this I would define to be God.

There alternative to saying "One" would be that there is an infinite principle in which all things originate from. Because God is infinite, something that which is infinite nullifies any numerical application because there is no causation. So in other words since God, not being created but is the creator is infinite there is logical way of applying any numerical value to him because hwas and always is. Of course when we look at our doctrine it says :

"In the name of God, the most gracious the most merciful

All praises is due to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds."

In the Exordium these lines very much sums up all other verses within the Qur'an, the Exordium which is considered to be very much the opening of knowledge to other verses is what describes the being Allah. In the ancient belief systems gods were deities who were partial to the world, controlling various aspects of the weather and/the human system. The gods of Olympus were worship for being great, but were limited because they only controlled certain aspects of the world and became jealous of each other when one would be worshiped greater than the other.

In the monotheistic system there is no room for jealousy because there is no logical way in which other deities (or principles) would exist. However there are various ways of explaining the infinite principle but overall it all leads to the same common truth. As Averroes (Ibn Rushd) puts it in his book "Faith and Reason in Islam" "It does not take multiple rulers to build one castle." This is just food for thought.

Brother Shams our numeric system is neither divine nor comes from any other being except us through God's will, so long as we ( humans) exist so does our numeric system. the moment we cease the moment our numeric sytem ceases this is how our numeric system is finite. Also, when we look at numbers all the individual numbers aren't constant, therefore because there are additional numbers each individual number is finite. for example when we say 3+3=6 because our goal is to get to see we need 3 additonal numbers (if we add 3) to get to 6 unfortunately we cannot get 6 from just the number  3 making 3 individually a finite number.

Perhaps the only number numerically that can be said tobe infinite are rational numbers which contain a decimal but contains the same number For example .333333333333 to infinity is a rational number but if it were .382654 that is irrational thus not infinite in number. God like .3 bar is infinite and constant but again we equate God to our numeric system we limit him. remember the qur'an is also revealed in a human language, Arabic for understanding. If  God is incomprehensible we cannot logically say we "comprehend" his oneness. We cannot comprehend him yes but we cannot say that we comprehend "his numeric value either."

Note:

My apologies to all as I made a mathematical mistake. When you get .3 bar or .3333333333 to infinity unfortuately due to my early rush I cannot totally explain but it's simple algebra. If you square root a number sometimes you'll get the square root of a number such as the square root of 4 is 2 or the square root of 10 is 5 etc. Also when I mentioned the problem 3+3=6 even though Angel may have gotten it others may not have.

When I say when we attribute numbers to God such as saying he is one I mean tto say the number One as we know of the number it in it of itself is finite on our numeric system. For example if were to get to the number five we would go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. By logic 2 being the greater number to one and three by being the greater number to 2 1 is finite individually because it is not a constant number. .333333333 on the other hand is constant because it goes all the way to ad infinitum. But .333333 where I made the mistake of allocating this to God is not infinite by law, but there has to be a calculation inn which makes it infinite mathematically such as squarte rooting a number to come out and make it a decimal

Annie by knowing ourselves how do we know God? the true knowledge of God is unabtainable so how can we know true knowledge if we ourselves are limited?