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It is stated in another hadith that those who profess La Ilaha Illallah will experience  no affliction at the time of death or in the grave.

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Rasullallah (Sallallaho alaihe wasallam) said, "On the Day of Judgment, Almighty Allah will select a man from my Ummat and will call him in the presence of all mankind, and then 99 registers of his misdeeds, each register as long as one can see, will be opened before him. He will then be asked if he denies anything recorded in his account of deeds, or whether the angels who are appointed to record his deeds had been unjust to him in any respect. He will reply in the negative (i.e. he will neither  deny anything nor blame the angels for any injustice to him). Then Allah will ask him if he can justify his misdeeds, but he will submit that he has no excuse to offer. Then Allah will say 'Well there is indeed one virtue to your credit. Today no injustice will be done to you.' Then a small piece of paper with the Kalimah

Ash-hadoal lailaha illallah wa-ash-hado-an-na muhammadan abdahu wa-rasuluh.

written on it will be handed over to him, and he will be asked to go and get it weighed. He will submit that this small piece of paper will be of little avail as against so many lengthy registers. Allah will say, "This day, no justice will be done to you." Then all the registered will be placed in one pan and the piece of paper in the other pan. The pan with the registers will fly up in the air on account of the excessive weight of that piece of paper. The fact is that nothing is weightier than the name of Allah."

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Rasulullah (Sallallaho alaihe wasallam) said : " I swear by Allah Who controls my life that if all the skies and the Earth, with all the people and all the things between them and all that may be within them, are placed together in one pan of the balance, and the faith in 'La Ilaha Illallah' is put in the other pan, the latte will outweigh the former."

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There came to Rasulullah (Sallallaho alaihe wasallam) three non-Muslims who said to him : "O Muhammad ! (Sallallaho alaihe wasallam) don't you recognise anybody, except Allah as worthy of worship ?" In reply, Rasulullah (Sallallaho alaihe wasallam) recited La-Ilaha Illallah (Nobody is worthy of worship except Allah), and added : "I have been deputed specifically for the propagation of this Kalimah, and to it I invite all mankind." It was in this connection that the verse 'Qul ayyu Shai-in Akbaru Sha-hadah' (What thing is of most weight in testimony) was revealed." 

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The Prophet Eesa (Jesus) (Alayhis salaam) had said : The deeds of Ummat of Hadhrat Muhammad (Sallallaho alaihe wasallam) would be reckoned weightiest, on the Day of Judgment, because their tongues are accustomed to the recitation of a Kalimah, which was found too hard by the Ummat of other Prophets, and this Kalimah is La-Ilaha Illallah. 

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Rasulullah (Sallallaho alaihe wasallam) related that he was told by Jibraa-eel (Alayhis salaam) that Almighty Allah says : "Only I am Allah; there is none worthy of worship except I, hence worship only Me; whosoever will come to Me with firm faith in La Ilaha Illallah will enter My fort, and whosoever enters My fort will be safe from My punishment."

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Rasulullah (Sallallaho alaihe wasallam) said "The best form of zikr is 'La Ilaha Illallah'; and the best form of du'aa is Istighfaar (seeking forgiveness of Allah)"; hten, in support thereof, he recited from Surah Muhammad, the verse

Fa-a lamu an-nahu La Ilaha Illallah

So know that none is worthy of worship but Allah.

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As narrated by Hadhrat Abu Bakr (Radhiyallaho anho) Rasulullah (Sallallaho alaihe wasallam) had said : "Recite 'La Ilaha Illallah' and Istighfaar as frequently as you can, because  Shaytaan says : "I ruin the people by inclining them to commit sins but they frustrate me through their recitation of  'La Ilaha Illallah' and Istighfaar. When I find this so, I mislead them to indulge in bid'at and thereby make them follow their base desires in the belief that they are still on the right path."