Editing Muslims (section)

==Qualifier==
{{Islam, iman and ihsan}}
To become a Muslim and to convert to Islam, it is essential to utter the ''[[Shahada]]'' in front of Muslim witnesses,<ref>Galonnier, Juliette. "Moving In or Moving Toward? Reconceptualizing Conversion to Islam as a Liminal Process1." Moving in and out of Islam. University of Texas Press, 2018. 44-66.
</ref> one of the [[Five Pillars of Islam]], a [[declaration of faith]] and trust that professes that there is [[tawhid|only one]] [[God in Islam|God]] ''([[Allah]])'' and that [[Muhammad]] is God's messenger.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pillars of Islam |url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e1859 |website=Oxford Islamic Studies Online |archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20170426134526/http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e1859 |archive-date=26 April 2017 |date=26 April 2017 |url-status=usurped}}</ref> It is a set statement normally recited in Arabic: ''ašhadu ʾan-lā ʾilāha ʾillā-llāhu wa ʾašhadu ʾanna muħammadan rasūlu-llāh'' ({{lang|ar|أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وأشهد أن محمداً رسول الله}})  "I testify that there is no god [worthy of worship] except Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vHG_VulBdd4C&q=convert+islam+shahada&pg=PA87|title=Matthew S. Gordon and Martin Palmer, ''Islam'', Info base Publishing, 2009|page=87|access-date=26 August 2012|isbn=9781438117782|last1=Gordon|first1=Matthew|last2=Gordon|first2=Professor of Middle East Islamic History Matthew S|year=2009|publisher=Infobase |archive-date=20 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210320105511/https://books.google.com/books?id=vHG_VulBdd4C&q=convert+islam+shahada&pg=PA87|url-status=live}}</ref>

In [[Sunni Islam]], the shahada has two parts: ''la ilaha illa'llah'' (there is no god but [[Allah]]), and ''Muhammadun rasul Allah'' ([[Muhammad]] is the messenger of God),<ref name="LS">Lindsay, p.&nbsp;140–141</ref> which are sometimes referred to as the first ''shahada'' and the second ''shahada''.<ref name="Cornell9">Cornell, p.&nbsp;9</ref> The first statement of the shahada is also known as the ''[[tahlil|tahlīl]]''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael Anthony Sells|title=Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EYCFTVDDKmkC|year=1999|publisher=White Cloud Press|page=151|isbn=9781883991265|access-date=24 April 2017|archive-date=1 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301182642/https://books.google.com/books?id=EYCFTVDDKmkC|url-status=live}}</ref>

In [[Shia Islam]], the shahada also has a third part, a phrase concerning [[Ali]], the first [[Imamah (Shia doctrine)|Shia Imam]] and the fourth [[Rashidun|Rashid caliph]] of [[Sunni Islam]]: {{lang|ar|وعليٌ وليُّ الله}} ({{transliteration|ar|DIN|wa ʿalīyyun walīyyu-llāh}}), which translates to "Ali is the ''[[wali]]'' of God".<ref>''The Later Mughals'' by [[William Irvine (historian)|William Irvine]] p.&nbsp;130</ref>

In [[Quranism|Quranist Islam]], the shahada is the testimony that there is no god but [[Allah]] (''la ilaha illa'llah'').{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}

The religious practices of Muslims are enumerated in the [[Five Pillars of Islam]]: the declaration of faith (''[[shahadah]]''), daily prayers (''[[salat|salah]]''), almsgiving (''[[zakat]]''), fasting during the month of [[Ramadan]] (''[[sawm]]''), and the pilgrimage to [[Mecca]] (''[[hajj]]'') at least once in a lifetime.<ref name="WSU" /><ref name="CIA" />