Why do Muslims say:

[Muslimah]

Bismillah


Praise be to Allah, blessing and peace be upon his final Messenger and all other messengers and prophets.


Lately some of our Nazarine members were confused as to why Muslims have to say: Ash hadu anna Mohammadan rasoullah.


Here is an explanation according to my humble understanding:


I hereby testify before You O Allah, that the man You have sent to communicate your message, the man whom You Assigned to be in charge of teaching us your limits, commands, rules and regulations, the man who is a human being whom You sent to demonstrate to us how to live, and die, what are our priorities, and concerns within Your legitimate boundaries, what to avoid, what to refrain from..etc. I take as my role model, I testify that whatever he presented, introduced, and communicated is strictly and directly from you and only you. Not only this, but also by taking this testimony, we actually enter into agreement with Allah to follow those rules, refrain from what we should refrain from, admit that what the Messenger salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam as communicated to us is the word of Allah and of no one else, we accept to take it as the foundation of our life, guidance light and criterion to follow that must be applied and adopted in every aspect. Based on this agreement, we will not have an excuse on the Day of Judgment that allows us to say, we didn’t know, we were not aware. The book was, is and shall remain there and our testimony stands on this. By this testimony, we openly say that we will embrace his teachings, however, we must realise that doing a verbal testimony is not enough. I mean saying Ash hadu ana Mohammadan rasullah, is not sufficient. I mean what is the point of saying it, while doing otherwise? Saying it verbally is essential to remind ourselves of living it. Pronouncing a Shahada is a basic foundation in Islam to remind us how we must be committed to maintaining it in our hearts, our soles and living with it throughout till we die. If we don’t live it, we will not be able to utter it upon death. rs were confused as for the reason Muslims say