Kalimah

This Holy Kalimah is the fundamental basis of our Divine religion. Without it the edifice of Islam cannot stand at all, and without it no good deed of a man is reliable and reward able in the sight of Allah. States the Holy Prophet Mohammed        .

Islam is founded on five pillars : bearing witness that there is no God but Allah and Hazrat Mohammed        is his servant and apostle, establishment of Salaat, paying of Zakah, performance of Hajj and observing the fasts of Ramadhan.
                This Kalimah is a solemn declaration of our Faith and a solemn undertaking to fulfill all the obligations of the Divine Religion. Through this Holy Kalimah we affirm our belief in the oneness of Allah and in the Divine Apostleship of his servant Prophet Mohammed        .Having affirmed this conception consciously and with full conviction we become Moamin ( man of faith) and earn our title to all the Divine Rewards that are promised for the believers of the Faith. It is therefore our duty to learn and remember this Kalimah very correctly and precisely ; for ; if we recite it in a wrong way our declaration will not be complete. Similarly, the mere repetition without understanding the meaning and the implication cannot be called a solemn declaration. Our declaration can be said solemn and perfect only when we recite it correctly, consciously and knowing what the concept of the Oneness of Allah and the Apostleship of Prophet Mohammed        means.
Meaning and Implication
                The Holy Kalimah consists of two parts ;
(1) There is no God but one Allah
(2) His servant Hazrat Mohammed        is His Apostle.
                The first part means our complete negation of every creation of Allah ( individually or all put together) having capabilities to harm or benefit and implies our affirmation with full conviction that :
                Allah is one and there is none like Him, He has no partner, He neither beget nor is He begotten, He is indivisible in person, He is Eternal and infinite, He has neither beginning nor end. He is the Almighty, the All just and the Sustainer of all, He is the Creator and the Cherisher of all worlds, He has created me and all other beings, It is He Who foster me and all His other creatures, He is All-Knowing, All-Hearing, nothing is concealed from Him, He knows all action I do, He hears all words I speak, He knows all secrets I keep in my heart, He hears even the whisper of my thought, He is the Dispenser of life and death, sickness and health, poverty and riches, loss and gain lie solely in His control, He is the Merciful, the Compassionate, the Helper, It is He and only He Whom I must worship, to Him and Him alone all our prayers and supplications must be addressed, Him and only Him we must fear and hope, His and only His commandments I must follow.
                The second part embodies affirmation with conviction that.
                Prophet Mohammed        is His Apostle and Prophet, he was a servant of Allah and a human being but selected by Allah to be His Messenger like other previous Apostles and Prophets, Allah's commandments were revealed to him for the guidance of man, he was charged to teach us the Divine Laws, he practiced the Religion himself and taught it to us, whatever he did, preached or taught was only from Allah, he never taught us from his own accord, it is through him only we can know Allah's Commandments. I cannot deny his Prophet hood and Apostleship, I believe in whatever he taught and preached, be it seen or unseen, be it in our mental approach or beyond that, I do not worship him but I revere him and consider him a model of divinely appreciated conduct for myself and for humanity at large,   his Prophet hood is final and universal, no other Prophet or Apostle will ever now come, to obey him is exactly to obey Allah, to love him is exactly to love Allah, the code of life taught us by him is complete and final, we cannot change it. anything running counter to this code is false, anyone going against his ways m cursed.
Obligations
                 The above explanation of the Holy Kalimah proclaims clearly that this is a pledge, a convenient to follow only Allah's Commandments in every walk of our life and to subject all our internal and external activities solely to His Will. We have to fulfill this pledge and lead our life exactly as the Holy Messenger of Allah Prophet Mohammed        taught us. We must fulfill this obligation with our utmost sincerity and with full devotion. We are bound to seek knowledge of Allah's Commandments and practice them in all spheres of our life. We must worship Him only through the ways that He such deeds and actions that He has forbidden, must deal with His creation only in accordance with His Laws and must perform all our other social or individual affairs even like earning, spending, sleeping and resting etc. only in such a way as pleases Him.

Virtues of Kalimah
                This Holy Kalimah is the first gateway to the Divine Religion and a surest way to keep our Faith refreshed.   It has numerous virtues and benefits. We must remain very particular about it and go on reciting it as much as possible. It refreshes and revitalizes our Iman,   the Holy Prophet Mohammed        said.
                    " Keep on refreshing your Faith by reciting Kalimah frequently"