{"id":6524,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/declaration-of-faith\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:21:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:21:02","slug":"declaration-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/declaration-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Declaration Of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>My parents taught me the <em>kalimah<\/em> <em>shahadah<\/em> as follows: <em>la ilaha illAllah Muhammad ur rasulullah<\/em>.  Why do I have to add that Prophet Mohammed is the Messenger of Allah  while there were so many prophets and all of them taught the same  religion? Would it matter if I just said <em>la ilaha illallah<\/em>? <\/p>\n<p>Why do we mention the name of the Prophet Muhammad (sws) and the Prophet Ibrahim (sws) in the <em>tashahhud<\/em> (sitting position in the prayer)? Also please tell me who authored the supplication to be made in this position?<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>We add the second part of <em>shahadah<\/em>  specifically mentioning the name of the Prophet Muhammad (sws) because  we happen to live in the time when his message and the book he brought  is the source of guidance for us. We are addressees of the Prophet  Muhammad (sws). It is our position as his addressee that makes it  necessary to acknowledge his status and the Messenger of Allah. When we  declare belief in his prophethood we acknowledge the belief in all the  messengers.<\/p>\n<p>The Prophet (sws) taught the supplications to be said in the <em>tashahhud<\/em>.  However they are not the only supplications. We have a choice here. We  do not think there is a problem in naming the Messenger in this context.  We address him metaphorically. We do not mean to say that he is present  among us.<\/p>\n<p>As  for the name of the Prophet Abraham (sws) that is only for the sake of  reference. The Qur&#8217;an tells us that he was blessed greatly by God. You  may know that after severe tests and trials he was blessed by confining  the institution of Prophethood in his progeny. This is a great blessing  of God. All the three major religions in the world hold him in great  esteem. Many Messengers came from among his children including the  Prophet Muhammad (sws). We seek equally great blessings of God for the  Prophet Muhammad sws.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-01-18<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6524\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My parents taught me the <em>kalimah<\/em> <em>shahadah<\/em> as follows: <em>la ilaha illAllah Muhammad ur rasulullah<\/em>.  Why do I have to add that Prophet Mohammed is the Messenger of Allah  while there were so many prophets and all of them taught the same  religion? Would it matter if I just said <em>la ilaha illallah<\/em>? <\/p>\n<p>Why do we mention the name of the Prophet Muhammad (sws) and the Prophet Ibrahim (sws) in the <em>tashahhud<\/em> (sitting position in the prayer)? Also please tell me who authored the supplication to be made in this position?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[1692,1925,2330,2331],"class_list":["post-6524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-belief-in-prophethood","tag-durood","tag-ibrahim","tag-kalimah","tag-tashahhud"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Declaration Of Faith - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/declaration-of-faith\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Declaration Of Faith - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My parents taught me the kalimah shahadah as follows: la ilaha illAllah Muhammad ur rasulullah. 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