In
Alevi thought, there are three creative principles: the latent breath called
Haqq or
Allah; the prototypal human, who is made up of active and passive principles called
Yol,
Sunnah, or
Muhammad (the
Jem); and the divine light called
Nur, which is expressed as
Ali. Communion (
ittihad) in Alevism is not comparable with the
Christian Trinity, whose three personas are
the Father,
the Son and
the Holy Spirit, nor with the Hindu
tritheistic Trimurti of
Brahma,
Shiva and
Vishnu, and not with polytheistic ancient Egypt in
Osiris,
Isis and
Horus, one cannot accurately depict such examples as being representative of the Haqq–Muhammad–Ali communion (ittihad), since according to Alevi or Bektashi beliefs (
wahdat al-mawjud), only Allah is a real entity, Muhammad and Ali being simple manifestations of the way (Yol) and the light (Noor) of Allah (Haqq) and not of Allah himself, hence they are neither equal to it nor separate independent entities. ==See also==