"...When the human being comes to know, to realize, to accept and finally submit to this reality, the first step on the way to peace is taken. At the simplest level this is the rejection of the belief in a deity or partner (shirk) other than Allah in favor of belief in and affirmation of a singular absolute Existent (tawhid). By this act I negate on every level and for all time all multiple limited finite existance. I deny the contingent in the face of the Necessary Absolute. I obliterate the self in the Self, and I reject the quantity for the Quality of the One. I do so because this is the obvious and clear truth. On the simplest level this means I reject all idols, fetishes, objects of cult worship, created being and personalities including my "self" as well as the earth, the moon, the stars, the sun and finally, any idea "I" might have of who or what 'God' might or might not be.."