Word: tawhidã
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...literal level, “tawhid?? means oneness, or unity. This does not only refer to the oneness of God; many Muslims also understand it as the oneness of humankind, the essential sameness of the souls of human beings, though bodies may differ because of race or gender, or minds may differ because of religious belief. While human beings prefer to divide themselves into religious, ethnic and national groups, a believer in tawhid has a more profound understanding of mankind. He looks past these divisions, recognizing that the soul in each body is of the same basic nature?...
...This greater jihad is the struggle to conduct oneself in the way that God would want humans to conduct themselves. Achieving this requires waging a jihad against one’s baser tendencies, such as anger or prejudice. Thus, one who engages in jihad is one who believes in tawhid??he is one who strives to make himself the slave of only God, and not of his passions...
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