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The meaning of [the confession]: La ilaha illAllah: ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah’) and its conditions:

The conditions of La ilaha illallah and its meaning: La ilaha illallah is the key to Paradise, but every key should have teeth by which it opens or it would not be useful. The conditions of La ilaha illallah are the teeth of this key, and they are:

1) Knowing its meaning, which is the negation of worship except to Allah, then confirming it only to Him.

Allah said "Know, therefore, None has the right to be worshipped but Allah, and ask forgiveness for your fault, and for the men and women who believed." This means that there is no truly worshipped god in earth so is in heaven except Allah.

And the Prophet said, “Whoever dies while he knows that there is no true god worthier to be worshipped but Allah shall enter the Paradise”. Reported by Muslim.

2) The certainty, which negates doubt. This could be only achieved by having a certain heart, which never doubts in it.

Allah said, "Only those are Believers who have believed in Allah and His Messenger, and have never since doubted in it."

And the Prophet said, “Any slave who meets with Allah, bearing witness that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah, and that I am his Messenger, without entertaining any doubt about these (two fundamentals), will not be banished from entering Paradise”.

3) Accepting whatever this word necessitates in heart and saying, Allah said about disbelievers: "For they, when they were told that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah, would puff themselves up with Pride. And say: "What! Shall we give up our gods for the sake of a Poet possessed?’", this means that they disobeyed to say it where believers did.

And the Prophet said, “I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight the people till they say, ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah’, and whoever said it then he will save his life and property from me except on trespassing the law (rights and conditions for which he will be punished justly)”.

4) Submission and surrender to what it shows.

Allah said, "Turn yourselves to your Lord (in repentance) and bow to His (Will)".

5) The Truth, which negates lying. This means that one should say it truly from heart.

Allah said, "Alif Lam Mim. Do men think that they will be left alone on saying, "We believe," and that they will not be tested? We did test those before them, and Allah will certainly know those who are true from those who are false (believers)."

And the Prophet said, “If anyone testifies (sincerely from his heart) that there is no god but Allah, and that Muhammad is His bondsman and His messenger, Allah immunes him from Hell Fire.”

6) Loyalty, which is the purification of the deeds with the good intention from any kind of Shirk (polytheism).

Allah said, "And they have been commanded no more than this: to worship Allah, offering Him sincere devotion, being True (in faith)."

And the Prophet said, “The luckiest person who will have my intercession on the Day of Resurrection will be the one who said, 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah,' sincerely from the bottom of his heart.”

And he also said, “Allah immuned from Hell Fire whomever he said, ‘La ilaha illAllah’ only aiming at the face of Allah Glorified and Exalted (desiring His Satisfaction)”

7) Loving this pure word and loving whatever it necessitates or shows, and loving its people who perform its meaning and take it strongly with its conditions, and hate whatever may negate that.

Allah said, "Yet there are men who take (for worship) others besides Allah, as equal (with Allah): they love them as they should love Allah, but those of Faith are overflowing in their love for Allah."

And the Prophet said, “Whoever possesses the following three qualities will taste the sweetness of faith:

1) The one to whom Allah and His Messenger become dearer than anything else.
2) Who loves a person and he loves him only for Allah's sake.
3) Who hates to revert to disbelief (Atheism) after Allah has brought (saved) him out from it, as much as he hates to be thrown in fire.”

 

8) To disbelieve in Tawagheet (those who are worshipped or wrongly obeyed other than Allah). These are the worshipped gods else than Allah. Moreover, to believe in Allah as a Lord and a truly worshipped God.

Allah said, "Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from Error: whoever rejects Evil and believes in Allah has grasped the most trustworthy hand-hold, that never breaks. And Allah is the All-Hearer All-Knower."

And the Prophet said, “He who professed that there is no god but Allah and made a denial of everything which the people worship besides Allah, his property and blood became inviolable.”