Tawheed of Allah — that He is singled out with worship — has three divisions which the people of knowledge upon the manhaj of the Salaf have derived from inductive examination of the Qur''an and Sunnah. The first is Tawheed ar-Rububiyyah: affirming that Allah alone is the Lord, the Creator, the Provider, the One who gives life and death and disposes of all affairs. The second is Tawheed al-Uluhiyyah (also called Tawheed al-''Ibadah): singling Allah out with all forms of worship — du''a, sacrifice, vow, hope, fear, reliance, and love — directing none of them to other than Him. The third is Tawheed al-Asma'' was-Sifat: affirming for Allah every name and attribute He affirmed for Himself or which His Messenger affirmed for Him, without distortion (tahrif), denial (ta''til), how-questioning (takyif), or likening Him to creation (tamthil). The disbelief of the mushrikun in the time of the Prophet (ﷺ) was not in Rububiyyah — they affirmed Allah was the Creator — but in Uluhiyyah, by directing acts of worship to others alongside Him.