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shahadah

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Noun1.shahadah - the first pillar of Islam is an affirmation of faith
pillar of Islam - (Islam) one of the five religious obligations accepted by all Muslims
witness - testimony by word or deed to your religious faith
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This concept is also addressed in Matalib as-Salikin where it is stated that Allah brought the world its existence from the ghayb (unseen) to the shahadah (visible) with the command kun fa yakun (be and it is).
Selected Sufi texts of Shaykh Yusuf: translations and commentaries by Keraan, Mustapha; Haron, Muhammed / Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
Witnessing the reality of God, called the shahadah, followed by merging our individual human consciousness--bounded in the self or ego--with God.
Asceticism in Islam by Rauf, Imam Feisal Abdul / Cross Currents
Therefore a true Muslim has to follow the five pillars of Islam: * Prayers five times a day (salat) proceeded with ablution * Fasting during the month of Ramadan, the ninth month of the Hijrah calendar * Zakat, from the phrase "to purify," the Arabic word for almsgiving * Shahadah, the Arabic word for "witness.
The Arabic story: mirror of a culture a curriculum for the West by Mallakh, Olfat El- / Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
 
 
 
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