Shaykh al-Islaam [May Allaah have Mercy on him] said:
An Ilaah (God) is something that is worshipped and obeyed, it is a deity that we turn to, deserved of our worship. It is the deity that deserves to be attributed with perfection which will create love for the one worshipping it. It creates humility for the one who worships Him.
So a deity is something that is loved, worshipped, a thing that the hearts are turned to with love. A thing that makes the hearts tranquil and filled with humility towards it. A thing that the worshippers fears but is also balanced with hope in it. You return to this deity when times are difficult and you supplicate to it with whatever concerns you. A deity which is the object of you reliance and you seek from it assistance. A deity is something you resort to and you find peace when remembering it.
You live loving it and nothing can comprise all of these except Allaah Alone, therefore we submit and testify with the statement, ‘There is no God but Allaah’, the truest of statements.
Those who believe in this statement and uphold it are the party of Allaah and they deny and reject anything that conflicts the statement they ardently believe in.
If you truly uphold this statement in yourself then all your affairs will become easy and you will truly taste the sweetness of what it means to say it. If you have not actualised its meaning and not upheld it in your life then you are a deprived slave and it becomes obligatory upon you to learn and live by it. End Quote.
[Fath al-Majeed Sharh Kitaab at-Tawheed (Pg 25)]
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