Allah (Himself) is witness that there is no god but Him.

The angels and the men of wisdom, standing firm for justice (too are witness). That there is no god but Him, the Almighty, the All Wise. Verily, the religion with Allah is Islam.

And I, a timid servant, sinful, guilty, insignificant, needy, destitute, give witness of my Benefactor, my Creator, my Sustainer, and my liberal patron, just as He Himself testifies, and testify the angels and the men of wisdom, His servants, that verily there is no god but He, possessor of bounties and favors, generosity and blessings.

Eternal Almighty, Ever Lasting, Knower, One and only Ever Living, Ever-Existing, Hearer, Seer, Willing, Discriminating, Aware, Independent. Worthy is He of these attributes, although, truly speaking, He is over and above attribution.

He was Almighty prior to the actuality of might and power was created. He was wise before the conception of knowledge and reason was brought about. He was absolute sovereign even when there was no kingdom or possession. He is Glory under all circumstances. His supreme being is prior to antecedence, and eternal, without a beginning. He will survive continually beyond the end of everything, imperishable, and without an end. He has no needs, in the beginning as well as in the end. He is free from dependence, by Himself, whether inward, or outward, there is no injustice in His judgment, no unfairness in His management, no oppression in His administration. (It is) impossible to deny His sovereignty, or to run away from His firm grip, or to avoid His punishment.

His mercy overtakes his anger. If a (handicapped) person asks for anything from Him, unable to approach Him (properly) because of frustrating trouble, he is treated in the matter of fulfillment at par with an able beseecher. He has given capacity to carry out (His) commands, has made it easy to avoid (His) prohibitions and has not made obedience cumbersome but according to one's competency.

Glory is to Him! How much kind is He! Highest is His glory. Glory is to Him! How wonderful His gifts! Moreover, certainly his favors are countless. He sent down Prophets to explain clearly His justice, appointed guides to make known His power and generosity, and put us among the ummah (followers) of the Prophet-in-chief, the closest friend of Allah, the superlative being, and the most pious, Muhammad, Allah's blessings and peace be on him and on his descendants.

Know that our belief concerning Tawhid is that Allah (SWT), exalted is He, is One and absolutely unique. There is no one like Him, He is prior, He never was, and never will be, but the Hearing and the Seeing One. The Omnisent; the Wise; the Living; the Everlasting; the Mighty; the Holy; the Knowing One; the Powerful; the Self-Sufficient.

You cannot describe Him by His essence, His body, His form, or by His accidental qualities. Nor in terms of length, breadth, surface, weight, lightness, quiescence, motion, place or time. He, exalted is He, transcends all the attributes of His creatures. He is beyond both the limitations of transcendence and of immanence.

He is a thing, but not like other things. He is Unique, Eternal Refuge; He begets not lest He may be inherited, nor is He begotten lest He may be associated with others. There is no one like Him. He has no equal or opponent, compeer or consort. Nothing can be compared with Him.

He has no rival, no partner. Human eyes cannot behold Him, while He discerns the power of eyes. The thoughts of men cannot compass Him, while He is aware of them. A slumber overtakes Him not nor sleeps.

He is the gracious and the Knowing One, the creator of all things. There is no deity other than Him. To Him alone belongs the Power of creation and authority. Blessed is Allah, the Lord of the Worlds.

One condition does not prevent Him from (getting into) another condition, time does not change Him, place does not locate him and the tongue does not describe Him. The numbers of drops of water, of stars in the sky, or of currents of winds in the air are not unknown to Him, nor the movements of ants on rocks, or the resting place of grubs in the dark night. He knows the places where leaves fall, and the secret movements of the pupils of the eyes.

Glorified is Allah before Whom every one in the skies or the earth bows in prostration willingly or unwillingly, submits to Him by placing his cheeks and face (in the dust), drops before Him (in obedience) peacefully and humbly, and hands over to Him full control in fear and apprehension.

The birds are bound by His commands. He knows the number of their feathers and their breaths. He has made their feet to stand on water and on land. He has ordained their livelihoods. He knows their species - this is the crow, this is the eagle, this is the pigeon and this is the ostrich. He called out every bird with its name (while creating it) and provided it with its livelihood. He created heavy clouds and produced from them heavy rain and spread it on various lands. He drenched the earth after its dryness and grew vegetation from it after its barrenness.

He manifests Himself over the earth with His authority and greatness. He is aware of its inside through His knowledge and understanding. He has power over every thing in the earth by virtue of His sublimity and dignity. Nothing from the earth that he may ask for defies Him, nor does it oppose Him to overpower Him. No swift-footed creature can run away from Him to surpass Him. He is not needy towards any possessing person so that he should feed Him. All things bow to Him and are humble before His greatness. They cannot flee away from His authority to someone else in order to escape His benefit or His harm. There is no parallel for Him who may match Him and no one like Him to equal Him.

Allah knows the cries of the beasts in the forest, the sins of the people in seclusion, the movements of the fishes in the deep seas and the rising of the water by tempestuous winds. I stand witness that Muhammad is the choice of Allah, the conveyor of His revelation and the messenger of His mercy.

All praise is due to Allah, the One and Only God Who is sought by all, the Unique One Who is neither created out of anything pre-existing, nor has He created anything out of something. Through His Might does He manifest Himself, and it is through His Might that anything manifests itself. None of His attributes can be fully comprehended, nor does He have any measure whereby He is compared. The tongue in any language is too crippled to describe His attributes, and the circumlocution of His attributes leads into nowhere but a blind alley. The sharpest of intellects are too puzzled to comprehend His kingdom; all comprehensive explanations are rendered short of delving into His kingdom. Unknown curtains obstruct the understanding of the lowest levels of His hidden knowledge, and the keenest insights are totally lost in comprehending the most (seemingly) superficial of His subtleties.

Therefore, Glorified is Allah Who cannot be reached by the most ambitious of wills, nor can He be grasped by the deepest of insights. Exalted is He for Whom there is neither measure of time, nor any fixed duration, nor any limited description. Praised is He Who has no beginning at all nor any end, nor any extinction. Glorified is He as He has described Himself. Those who attempt to describe Him can never do so. He delineated the boundaries of all things when He created them without having modeled them after any pre-existing models, thus distinguishing Himself from their similitude. Never has He resided in them, so it could be said that He is contained therein, nor has He been apart from them, so a place outside them could be sought for Him.

Rather, He, all Praise is due to Him, encompassed them in His knowledge, perfected their design, and computed them. Even things beyond the curtains of the atmosphere are never hidden from His knowledge; nor are those obscurities within the depth of the dark; nor are those in the high heavens; nor are those in the lowest layers of the earth. For each thing in them, there is a custodian and a keeper; each one of them surrounds the others, while His knowledge encompasses them all. He is the One and Only God upon Whom all depend for their existence and subsistence, the One Whom the passage of time never alters, nor does the creation of things tire Him. Whatever He wills, He says to it, Be! and it is. He created everything without following a pre-existing model or a precedent, and without encountering any fatigue or a prior planning. Whoever makes something makes it out of something else, whereas Allah created everything out of nothing. Every scholar acquires knowledge after being ignorant, while Allah is never ignorant, nor has He ever acquired knowledge out of what He creates.

He encompasses all things in His knowledge before creating them. Nothing is added to His knowledge because of their coming into existence. His knowledge is the same before and after He brought them into existence. He never created what He created in order to enhance His control; nor out of fear of its decay or loss; nor to seek help out of it against His adversary; nor to seek the upper hand over a progressive competitor; nor seeking to be the equal of a dominating partner. He nurtures all creation; everyone and everything are humbled slaves before Him.

Glorified is He Who never feels weary on account of creating what He creates, nor in nurturing whatever He creates, nor does He, out of inability or slackness, terminate what He creates. He knows what He creates and creates what He knows. Whatever He creates, He creates neither out of deliberating on any new knowledge, nor does any doubt entertain Him because of what He creates. Rather, He creates out of His inviolable decision, firm knowledge, and exact command. He made Himself unique in His Mastership, peerless in unity, grandeur, and sublimity. He remains peerless in praise and exalted in glory. He is far above parenthood, purified from and sanctified against any cohabitation.

He is too Great and too Mighty to seek any partners. Thus, none among what He creates opposes Him, nor is there any equal peer like Him from among His possessions, nor is there any partner in His Kingdom. He is the One, the Unique, the One sought by all, the Eternal, the Everlasting, the Lord of the cosmos Who has always been and shall always be, the eternally all alone before the beginning of time and after the end of all affairs. He will never terminate nor expire. Thus do I describe my Lord; there is no god except Allah; Great is He and how Great! Glorified is He and how Glorified! Almighty is He and how Almighty! He is far above what the unjust ones say about Him, far, far above that!