Two voices walk through ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī's al-Rasāʾil al-Tawḥīdiyya, one treatise at a time — made for listeners with no background in Islamic philosophy.
Why the sceptic's doubt defeats itself, how existence admits no second, why God's oneness is not a number — and how the Qurʾān and the Imams speak of a God beyond every qualification, even “absolute.”
How Islam's witness to oneness is the highest any tradition has reached, how the ancients groped toward it, and the fruit it bears — a life whose every virtue is lived through God and for Him.
How the one God bears many Names without ever being many — the sheer unity that precedes all description, the unity that holds every Name at once, and the Greatest Name that is less a word than a station of self-effacement.
If God is the only real agent, who owns our evil — and are we free? Evil as a gap rather than a thing, the written past and the open future, why “essential” fate is the soul’s own hardened form, and the narrow path between compulsion and abandonment: neither puppet nor god.
The finale: the unseen architecture between the Unbounded and the world — the four descending worlds, the Throne and the Pen read as levels of God’s living knowledge, the ranks of angels, and Satan as the first “I” — closing with the discovery that you yourself are the staircase’s last step.
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