فَفِرُّوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ
“…Flee, therefore, to Allah…”
Tawhīd entails the affirmation of the absolute oneness and uniqueness of God, the absolute, necessary creator whose act of perpetual creation generates and sustains all that is in the world, all of which is contingent and subordinate to His command. In this most basic theistic paradigm is a powerful liberatory force against all oppressive worldly orders. This is because the hallmark of any oppressive order is the arrogation of superiority and ultimate sovereignty to itself, an arrogation that is vehemently denied by twin testimonies of tawhīd. This short reflection will articulate this argument, leaning on the work of Enrique Dussel and Taha ʿAbd al-Rahman, through a theorization of the created world as the meta-order that grounds modern oppressive orders, and a distinction between the world-as-dunyā and the world-as-ʿālam.
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