...Mecca and Medina in eastern Arabia. The profession of faith which all Muslims must make is the shahada: 'there is no God but God, and Muhammad is the Prophet of God'. In addition pious Muslims should pray five times a day, give alms (zakat), fast from dawn to dusk during...

...one who has submitted to God. You become a Muslim not by birth but by confession of the Shahadah — "There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the Prophet of God" — and by practicing the good deeds prescribed by the Quran. Islam's appeal is its simplicity; it...

...the shahadah or witness, a sort of Islamic credo: 'La ilaha ilia Allah, wa Muhammadun rasul Allah ' (There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the Prophet of God). The remaining four central practices are ignored by the Alevis: prayer five times daily; annual fasting,...

...ensues from complete surrender or subnussion to God. Characteristics The central tenant of Islam is: "There is no god but God and . . . Muhammad is the Prophet of God." Any one who publicly proclaims this is considered a Muslim. The most authoritative texts for Muslims...

...— it is my duty to repeat that the 'five pillars of Islam' are, (1) the testimony of faith, that 'there is no god but God, and Muhammad is the prophet of God'; (2) daily prayer; (3) paying the tax for support of the poor; (4) the fast during Ramadan; and (5)...

...Determination," God determines the fate of the world for the coming year. Recite the profession of faith — "there is no god but God, and Muhammad is the Prophet of God" — each day. Pray five times a day (at daybreak, noon, mid-afternoon, after sunset, and in the early...

...al-fitr hajj 'id al-adha Optional festivals mawlid al-nabi laylat al-mi'raj ashum statement of faith. There is no God but God, and Muhammad is the Prophet of God almsgiving prayer performed five times daily: before dawn, noon, midafternoon, before sunset, mid-evening...

...North America. At the center of their faith is the shahadah, their confession "I bear witness that there is no god but God, and Muhammad is the prophet of God." One of the pillars of this so called faith; the other pillars being ritual prayer, almsgiving, fasting...

...complete revelation, the Holy Qur'an. Muhammad is affirmed as the human signifier of the most basic Muslim creed: There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the apostle of God. Yet Muslims disagree about the profile of Muhammad. After all, how can anyone know,...

...Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God. And Rahim then compares that to this passage from the Q'uran: There is no God but God and Muhammad is the prophet of God. Now, regardless of how you feel about his thesis...or how well you think he may have presented it,...