ritual

Shahada

Rituals

The named Islamic testimony of faith spoken as entry into the community. Not shahada as a mere slogan print, and not baptism as Christian washing.

Also known as Shahāda · Testimony of faith

Islam

  • Shahada is used in Islam.

    The Qur’an repeatedly treats shahāda — bearing witness that there is no god but God, and related testimony speech — as the community’s confessed mark. Islamic testimony-rite speech in that revelation, not faith as the inner assent alone already walked and not a modern conversion-form invent beyond the text.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

    used in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)

    M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).