This excerpt is taken from the book compiled by Hafiz Muhammad Ali Faisal, "Muslims Divided into Various Sects and Groups! Come to La ilaha illallah".
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
الحمد لله وحده والصلاة والسلام على من لا نبي بعده
The Most Weighty Dhikr and Supplication and the Means of Reverence Above the Heavens, Earths, and All Creatures
The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said that Musa (Moses), peace be upon him, asked Allah Almighty: O my Lord, tell me something through which I may remember You and supplicate to You by means of it.
Allah Almighty said: "Recite 'Musa La ilaha illallah'." Musa (Moses), peace be upon him, said: O my Lord! All Your servants recite it.
Allah Almighty said: O Musa! If the seven heavens and all their inhabitants and the seven earths are placed on one scale, and on the other scale only "La ilaha illallah" is placed and weighed, then the scale with "La ilaha illallah" will be heavier.
Reference: (Nasa'i: 10670, Al-Mustadrak al-Hakim: 1936, authentic according to the criteria of the two Sheikhs)
Abu Hurairah (RA) asked who is the fortunate person who will be deserving of your (SAW) intercession. The Prophet (SAW) said: "The person who sincerely declares the Kalima La ilaha illallah."
Reference: (Bukhari: 99)
Note: Saying it with sincerity means avoiding shirk; one who does not avoid shirk is not a sincere believer of it, even if they recite it with their tongue.
The Messenger of Allah (SAW) said: "When a person sincerely declares La ilaha illallah, the gates of the heavens are opened for him until he continues to ascend towards the Divine Throne, provided he avoids major sins."
Reference: (Tirmidhi: 3939, its chain is Hasan)
The Messenger of Allah (SAW) said: "Whoever sincerely declares La ilaha illallah solely to please Allah, Allah makes the punishment of Hellfire forbidden for him."
Reference: (Bukhari and Muslim)
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Whoever sincerely testifies from the depths of their heart that there is no deity except Allah,
He is alone... He has no partner.
And Muhammad (peace be upon him) is His servant and His Messenger.
And that Jesus (peace be upon him) is also a servant and Messenger of Allah and His word which Allah sent to Mary (peace be upon her).
And he (Jesus) is a spirit sent by Him.
And Paradise and Hellfire are true.
Allah will admit the one who testifies to Paradise, no matter what their deeds are."
Reference: (Bukhari: 3435 and Muslim: 149)
The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said:
On the Day of Resurrection, a person will be called in front of the entire universe, and ninety-nine registers of his sins will be placed before him. Each register will be as long and wide as the eye can see. Allah Almighty will ask: Can you deny any one of these sins? Have my guardian angels wronged you in any way?
He will reply: O my Lord, that is not the case.
Then the question will be asked: If you have any excuse, present it, or if you have any good deed, bring it forward!
The servant will fearfully respond: O Lord, I have neither any excuse nor any good deed.
Allah Almighty will say: You have one good deed preserved with Us. Remember! Today you will not be wronged.
Then a piece of paper will be brought out on which will be written أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وأشهد أن محمدا عبده ورسوله. The servant will say: O Allah! What is the worth of this piece of paper in front of these huge piles of sins? The answer will be: Today you will not be wronged.
Then those large registers of sins will be placed on one side of the scale, and the piece of paper on the other side. When weighed, the side with the kalima will be heavier.
Reference: (Tirmidhi: 2850, Sanad Hasan, Al-Mustadrak: 9, Sahih according to Muslim's condition)
Reflect! Why was this kalima accepted in comparison to the piles of sins? Because it was recited with a sincere heart. Otherwise, Abdullah bin Abi Munafiq, who also recited the kalima and prayed behind the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, was not benefited by it because the kalima was on his tongue but disbelief was in his heart. It is understood that
Sometimes two people recite the Kalima, but the difference in their sincerity is as vast as the distance between the earth and the sky.
thoroughly understand the meaning of لا إله إلا الله as Allah, the Lord of Glory, states in the Holy Quran:
﴿فَاعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ﴾
Translation: So understand well that there is no deity except Allah.
Reference: (47-Muhammad:19)
The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said: "Whoever dies while understanding لا إله إلا الله will enter Paradise."
Reference: (Muslim: 145)
The benefit of this Kalima will only be realized if one fully understands the declaration and fulfills its requirements; otherwise, it is nothing but ignorance.
The meaning of "La Ilaha" is that there is no deity... that is, before affirming the oneness of Allah... by affirming "La," the denial of all other lords of the universe is established. Because
⋆ You cannot become a servant of only one lord until you deny servitude to all others.
⋆ One can only bow at one threshold when they become indifferent to all other thresholds.
⋆ When you choose the light, you simultaneously express hatred for darkness.
⋆ You cannot turn your face in only one direction unless you turn away from all other directions.
Allah Almighty says: "O son of Adam! If you come to Me with sins equal to the earth and meet Me without associating anyone with Me, I will meet you with forgiveness equal to the earth."
Reference: (Tirmidhi: 3885 and Al-Albani said: Sahih)
﴿إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَغْفِرُ أَن يُشْرَكَ بِهِ وَيَغْفِرُ مَا دُونَ ذَٰلِكَ لِمَن يَشَاءُ ۚ وَمَن يُشْرِكْ بِاللَّهِ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ ضَلَالًا بَعِيدًا﴾
Translation: Indeed, Allah does not forgive associating partners with Him, but He forgives anything else whoever He wills. And whoever associates partners with Allah has certainly gone far astray.
Reference: (4-An-Nisa:116)
The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said: "Whoever dies while associating partners with Allah will enter the Fire."
Reference: (Al-Bukhari: 4497)
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "One man went to Paradise because of a fly, and another went to Hell." The Companions asked: O Messenger of Allah ﷺ, how is that? The Prophet ﷺ said: "Two men passed by a tribe that had an idol, and no one could pass without offering a sacrifice to it. So one of them was told to offer a sacrifice to the idol. He said he had nothing to offer. The people of the tribe said you must offer a sacrifice, even if it is just a fly. The traveler caught a fly and offered it as a sacrifice to the idol. The people let him go, and because of that sacrifice, he went to Hell.
The people of the tribe told the other man to also offer something to the idol. He said he would not offer a sacrifice in the name of anyone other than Allah Almighty. The people killed him, and he went to Paradise."
Reference: (Ibn Abi Shaybah, Shu'ab al-Iman by Al-Bayhaqi: 7093)
﴿ وَمَا يُؤْمِنُ أَكْثَرُهُم بِاللَّهِ إِلَّا وَهُم مُّشْرِكُونَ﴾
And most of them believe in Allah, but they associate others as partners along with Him.
Reference: (12-Yusuf:106)
The Mercy to the Worlds, peace be upon him, said:
On the Day of Judgment, Allah Almighty will say to the person who is afflicted with the lightest punishment, if you had in your possession the world and everything in it and wealth like it, would you give it all as ransom to be saved from this punishment? He will say: Yes.
Allah will say: I asked you for something even easier than that when you were still behind Adam’s back, which was not to associate partners with Me, otherwise I would cast you into Hell, but you disobeyed and associated partners.
Reference: (Al-Bukhari: 3334, Muslim: 7261)
Allah explained it to us with an example, listen carefully
"O people! A parable is being given, so listen carefully: the gods you call upon besides Allah cannot even create a fly, even if they all gather together. And if a fly snatches something away from them, they cannot rescue it from the fly. Those who seek help are weak, and those from whom help is sought are also weak. These people have not valued Allah as He deserves to be valued. The truth is that Allah is Most Powerful and Most Honorable."
Reference: (Surah Al-Hajj: 73,74)
Who is more misguided than the one who, instead of Allah, calls upon those who cannot accept his prayers until the Day of Judgment, and indeed they are heedless of their prayers.
Reference: (Surah Al-Ahqaf: 5)
Those besides Allah whom you call upon are just like you, human beings. So call upon them. If you are truthful, they should accept your prayers.
Reference: (Surah Al-A'raf: 194)
And those besides Allah whom they call upon do not create anything, and they themselves were created. They are dead, not alive, and do not know when they will be resurrected. Your God is the only true God. So those who do not believe in the life of the Hereafter, their hearts do not accept it; in reality, they are arrogant.
Reference: (Surah An-Nahl: 20,21,22)
They worship besides Allah those who can neither harm them nor benefit them, and say, "These are our intercessors with Allah." Say, O Prophet ﷺ, ask them if you are informing Allah of something He does not know, neither of the heavens nor the earth. He is pure and exalted above the shirk they commit.
Reference: (Surah Yunus: 18)
Those who have taken others as protectors besides Allah say, "We worship them so that they may bring us closer to Allah." Indeed, Allah will judge between them concerning that wherein they differ. Those who lie and deny the truth, Allah does not guide them.
Reference: (Surah Az-Zumar: 3)
﴿ وَإِذَا سَأَلَكَ عِبَادِي عَنِّي فَإِنِّي قَرِيبٌ ۖ أُجِيبُ دَعْوَةَ الدَّاعِ إِذَا دَعَانِ ۖ فَلْيَسْتَجِيبُوا لِي وَلْيُؤْمِنُوا بِي لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْشُدُونَ﴾
Translation: O Prophet, My servants, if they ask you about Me, then tell them that I am near. When the caller calls upon Me, I respond to his call. So they should obey My command and believe in Me so that they may be guided to the right path.
Reference: (2-Al-Baqarah:186)
﴿وَقَالَ رَبُّكُمُ ادْعُونِي أَسْتَجِبْ لَكُمْ﴾
Your Lord says, Call upon Me; I will respond to you.
Reference: (40-Ghafir:60)
The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: "When one-third of the night remains, our Exalted and Superior Lord descends to the lowest heaven and says: Who is it that supplicates to Me so that I may respond to him? Who is it that asks Me so that I may give to him? Who is it that seeks My forgiveness so that I may forgive him?"
Reference: (Al-Bukhari: 1145, Muslim: 1808)
In a Hadith Qudsi, Allah Almighty says: "O My servants! You are all hungry except those whom I feed, so ask food from Me and I will feed you. O My servants! You are all naked except those whom I clothe, so ask clothing from Me and I will clothe you."
Reference: (Muslim: 6737)
﴿فَلَا تَضْرِبُوا لِلَّهِ الْأَمْثَالَ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَعْلَمُ وَأَنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ﴾
"O people! Do not give examples for Allah Almighty because Allah knows everything while you do not know."
Reference: (16-An-Nahl:74)
﴿وَإِذَا ذُكِرَ اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ اشْمَأَزَّتْ قُلُوبُ الَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْآخِرَةِ ۖ وَإِذَا ذُكِرَ الَّذِينَ مِن دُونِهِ إِذَا هُمْ يَسْتَبْشِرُونَ﴾
"When only Allah Almighty is mentioned, the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter become upset, and when others besides Him are mentioned, they immediately brighten with joy."
Reference: (39-Az-Zumar:45)
The Holy Quran mentions the five idols of the people of Noah (peace be upon him): Wadd, Suwa', Yaghuth, Ya'uq, and Nasr, whose worship led to the drowning of the people of Noah. It is narrated from Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that these were righteous people of that nation, and when they died, Satan made their people believe that they were righteous. To keep their memory alive, they made pictures and statues of them, and so they did. After that, their foolish descendants began to worship the pictures and statues of these elders regularly.
Reference: (Al-Bukhari: 4920)
Umm al-Mu'minin Umm Salamah رضي الله عنها saw a church of Christians in the land of Abyssinia which also had pictures. Umm Salamah رضي الله عنها narrated this eyewitness account to the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم, who said: If a righteous and religious person dies among them, they build a mosque near his grave and then make a picture of the deceased person. He said that among Allah’s creation, such people are the worst.
Reference: (Al-Bukhari: 1341, Muslim: 1209)
It is narrated from Ibn Mas'ud رضي الله عنه that the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said that the worst and most evil people will be those in whose lifetime great signs of the Day of Judgment will appear. These will be the people who make graves places of prostration.
Reference: (Abu Hatim, Sahih)
Jabir رضي الله عنه narrates from the Prophet Muhammad صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم that the Prophet prohibited making graves solid, sitting on them, and building structures over them.
Reference: (Muslim: 2289)
Jundub bin Abdullah رضي الله عنه says that I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say five days before his death:
Beware! The people before you used to make the graves of their prophets and righteous people places of worship. I forbid you from building mosques on graves.
Reference: (Muslim: 1216)
Ibn Abbas رضي الله عنهما narrates that the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم cursed those women who frequently visit graves and also cursed those people who build mosques on graves and decorate graves with lights.
Reference: (Sunan al-Tirmidhi: 321, and he said the hadith is Hasan, Ibn Majah: Hasan)
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ cursed the Jews and Christians because they used to make the graves of the prophets places of prostration.
Reference: (Al-Bukhari)
The Prophet ﷺ said: "Whoever slaughters an animal in the name of anyone other than Allah, may the curse of Allah be upon him."
Reference: (Muslim: 5239)
The blind and the seeing are not equal, nor are darkness and light, nor shade and sunshine; in the same way, the living and the dead are not equal. Allah makes whom He wills hear, and you ﷺ cannot make those who are in the graves hear.
Reference: (Surah Fatir: 22)
Do not make my grave a place for fairs, gatherings, and festivals, and send blessings upon me, for indeed your blessings reach me wherever you are.
Reference: (Abu Dawood: 2044, Ahmad and Al-Albani: Sahih)
The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said that whoever hangs tamimah (bone, stone, shell, etc.) Allah will not fulfill his desire, and whoever hangs snails for healing, Allah will not grant him relief.
Reference: (Sahih Ibn Hibban)
In another narration, it is stated that whoever hangs tamimah (bone, stone, shell, and beads, etc.) around his neck has committed shirk (associating partners with Allah).
Reference: (Musnad Ahmad: 17884, Sahih Ibn Hibban: 6086)
The Prophet, peace be upon him, said: "Blowing and incantations with shirk, tamimah (bone, stone, beads, shells, and hanging shoes for the evil eye) and performing love charms are all shirk."
Reference: (Abu Dawood: 3883 and Al-Albani said: Sahih)
The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said: "Whoever hangs something around his neck or arm, the responsibility for it is entrusted to that very thing."
Reference: (Tirmidhi: 2072 and he said: Hasan)
Hudhayfah, may Allah be pleased with him, saw a person with a thread tied on his hand due to fever, so Hudhayfah, may Allah be pleased with him, cut it off and then recited the verse from Surah Yusuf 106:
"Most of them believe in Allah, but they associate others with Him."
Reference: (Ibn Abi Hatim: 12872)
The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, sent one of his companions that no rope or necklace should remain on the neck of any camel (which people used to tie in relation to the evil eye, etc.). If seen, it should be cut off immediately.
Reference: (Bukhari: 3005 and Muslim: 2115)
The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, saw a man wearing a brass ring on his arm. The Prophet, peace be upon him, asked: "What is this?" The man said it was worn due to a skin disease. The Prophet, peace be upon him, said: "If you were to die while wearing this ring, you would be handed over with it."
Reference: (Tabarani: 14770 and Al-Albani said: Sahih)
The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said: "Whoever swears by anyone other than Allah has committed disbelief or polytheism."
Reference: (Tirmidhi: 1535 and Al-Albani said: Sahih)
Zaid bin Khalid رضي الله عنه narrates that the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم led us in the morning prayer at the place of Hudaybiyyah. It had rained that night.
After finishing the prayer, the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم turned towards the companions رضي الله عنهم and asked, "Do you know what Allah Almighty has decreed?" The companions replied, "Allah and His Messenger know best."
The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Allah Almighty says, "This morning many of My servants have become believers and many have become disbelievers. Whoever said that this rain is due to the grace, bounty, and mercy of Allah has believed in Me and denied the worship of the stars. And whoever said that this rain is due to the movement of such and such stars has denied Me and believed in the stars."
Reference: (Bukhari: 4147 and Muslim: 240)
And do not marry your women to disbelieving men until they believe. And a believing slave is better than a disbelieving free man, even though you may like him.
Reference: (Surah Al-Baqarah: 221)
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and the believers are not worthy to ask for forgiveness for the polytheists, even if they are their close relatives.
Reference: (Surah At-Tawbah: 113)
Allah Almighty says:
"We have certainly created for Hell many of the jinn and mankind.
Their hearts do not understand with them.
Their eyes do not see with them.
Their ears do not hear with them.
Indeed, they are like livestock; rather, they are more astray from the way."
Reference: (Surah Al-A'raf: 179)
No person can become obedient to Allah Almighty until
Until all satanic forces rebel, and a major center of Satan's power is the desires that arise within a person himself. Allah Almighty says:
﴿اَرَءَيْتَ مَنِ اتَّخَذَ اِلٰهَهٗ﴾
Translation: Have you seen the one who has made his desires his god?
Therefore, to attain the status of La ilaha illallah, first abandon the worship of the idol of your desires, whether it is the desire for worldly wealth or the customs and traditions of family and community. In short, be so intense in the love of Allah that in His love you free your heart from all desires and affections. Allah has stated this sign of His special servants:
﴿وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَشَدُّ حُبًّا لِّلَّهِ﴾
Translation: The believers are those who love Allah intensely.
Reference: (2-Al-Baqarah:165)
In Surah At-Tawbah, Allah Almighty says:
Say, if your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your wives, your family, the wealth you have earned, the business you fear will decline, and the dwellings you love are dearer to you than Allah and His Messenger and striving in His cause, then wait until Allah brings His punishment. And Allah does not guide the disobedient.
Reference: (Surah At-Tawbah: 24)
