Kalimatus shahadah

 Khalimatus shahadah.

Khalimatus-shahadah is regarded as the first pillar of islam which is the (Declaration of faith) that makes a disbeliever a believer or a Muslim. 

The Arabic pronunciation of the khalifah is. 

اشهد ان لا اله الا الله وحده لا شريك له، واشهد ان محمدا عبده ورسوله. 

Ash-shadu al-laa-ilaha-illah-llahu wahadahu-la-sharikallahu, wa Asha-hadu Anna Muhammadan abduhu wa-rasuluhu. 

Meaning. 

I bear witness that there is no other God to be worshipped except Allah, He is one without partner and I testified that Muhammad (S.A.W) is his servant and Messenger. 

When prouncing the testimony, one should know and understand the Shahadah well so that the main purpose behind the utterance is that he believes in his heart that there is no god worshipped except Allah (S. W. T) alone. Thus, the first expression of the claim is word tawhid. (لا إله إلا الله ) this word of tawhid has two pillars. 

1. The first pillar is the (Nafi) which denies that there is no God who who is worthy to be worshipped (لا إله ). 

2. The second pillar is to establish or confirm (Ithbat) that only Allah is entitled to be worshipped (الا الله ). Hence it is not legitimate testimony of shahadah except you fulfill the two pillars in the expression of shahadah. 

Phrase of shahadah. 

The phrase of shahadah is divided into two. 

1. Tawhid (Nafi and ithbat) 

2. Risalah (confident with all heart that prophet Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah). 

A. Kalimatu tawhid also has some conditions to be met. Thus it is not legitimate to say the word tawhid of it does not fulfill seven conditions. 

Conditions of tawhid. 

1. Knowledge of the tawhid 

2. Confident in the heart of the word tawhid 

3. Sincerity 

4. Caring out the tawhid along in our everyday life. 

5. Love of Allah and the religion of islam 

6. Practicing all instructions and leaving all the prohibition of Allah (SWT). 

7. Requirement to accept it. 

B. Risalah : which must be pronounced by the Muslims when pronouncing the Shahadah is Risalah which is confident with the heart that prophet Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. Without this belief, one is not worthy to be called a Muslim although he believes Allah as his his God. 

Conditions of Risalah 

1. Obeying in prophet in what he said. 

2. Believe in him in what he told. 

3. Abstaining from what he prohibite. 

4. Allah should not be worshipped except in line with what he legislated and disregard all innovation.