We have six pillars of Iman and five pillars of Islam. The six pillars of Iman are the orders of Allah to our heart and the five pillars of Islam are the orders of Allah to our body. Heart is the king of the body and whatever the heart direct the body will do. On the other hand, our heart are influenced by what the body does particularly what has been spoken repeatedly by our tongue. Prophet Muhammad saw said in the approximate meaning, “A man will not become right until his heart is right and a man’s heart will not be right until his Iman is right and his Iman will not be right until his speeches are right”. What a man spokes repeatedly will becomes his beliefs and Allah has given us the best of all words to be spoken repeatedly by all men so that his beliefs are correct and that word is “I bear witness that there is no God except Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah”. The first pillar of Islam is to bear witness there is no God except Allah and I bear witness Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah. In order this Great Kalimah become embedded into the heart of every men and women, this Great Kalimah has to be spoken repeatedly by men and women. The first pillar of Islam is to bear witness that, there is no God except Allah and I bear witness Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah. In order for this Great Kalimah to go into our heart we have to fulfil the right of the Great Kalimah. What is the right of this Great Kalimah? The right of this Great Kalimah is when we see disobedience to the orders of Allah or evils; we must forbid the evils by inviting peoples to good. We must start forbidding the worst of all evils. The worst of all evils committed by men is there do not want to bear witness that there is no God except Allah and to testify Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah. The best of good deed is to bear witness that there is no God except Allah and to testify that Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah. When a person recite the Great Kalimah, all his or her sins are washed away and converted to good deeds. A person who does not want to recite the Great Kalimah is known as non-Muslims and a person who has recited the Great Kalimah is known as Muslim. The second most evils committed by men is, even though they had recited the Great Kalimah yet they do not convey the Great Kalimah to those who have not recited the Great Kalimah and the third most evils committed by men is, they do not perform five times prayers.

With the first pillar of Islam there is an actions associated with the pillar. What is the action associated with the first pillar of Islam? The action associated with the first pillar of Islam is to convey the Great Kalimah to those who have not recited it and to remind those who have accepted the Great Kalimah about the Great Kalimah and the orders of Allah. After Hazrat Abu Bakar r.a accepted and recited the Great Kalimah, he immediately did the action associated with the reciting of the Great Kalimah, which is to convey the Great Kalimah to others who have not recited the Great Kalimah. Prophet Muhammad saw said convey to others even though if you know only one verse. The work associated with the first pillar of Islam is only to convey the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims and not to convert them to become Muslim and to remind disobedience Muslims about the meaning of the Great Kalimah and to invite them to obey the orders of Allah and the first order to invite them to do is the order of conveying the Great Kalimah to non-Muslims and to order them to perform five times prayers. We are not asked by Allah to convert the non-Muslims to Muslims and to make the disobedience Muslims to become obedience but only to convey the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims and to remind the disobedience Muslims to obey the orders of Allah. What is needed is only time and enthusiasms to do it. No amount of money and wealth is required to do the actions associated with the First Pillar of Islam. It is an easy order of Allah to do except it is heavy to those who have no beliefs on the promises of Allah. All Muslims should give some times daily which is about 45 minutes either in the morning or in the evening to do the action associated with the First Pillar of Islam. What is the action? The action is to go and visit all Muslims and non-Muslims living in every lanes and roads in the locality of our mosques or surau. We have to visit every houses in the locality, lanes by lanes until all the houses in the locality have been visited. When we visited a Muslim houses, we must salute the household with Assalamualaikum for at least 3 times. When an adult male members comes out of the house, ask him to spend time and remind him about the meaning of the Great Kalimah and invite him to obey the orders of Allah and the first order he is to be invited is to convey the Great Kalimah to non-Muslims and the second order he needs to be invited is to perform 5 times congregation prayers in the mosques or surau. When no one comes out from the house or only the females members of the family is available, then raise your hand before Allah and make doa, so that all members of the household and Muslims all over the world will come to the obedience to the orders of Allah, particularly to the two most important daily orders of Allah. When we are visiting the non-Muslim houses, we must salute the household with greetings for three times. When an adult male’s member of the household comes out of the house, then we must invite him to recite the Great Kalimah. In case there is no one is in the house or only the female members of the family is available then raise your hand before Allah and ask forgiveness for your sins and the sins of all the Muslims in the whole world for neglecting the work of the Prophet Muhammad saw and to make doa so that Allah will give guidance the entire mankind in the whole world to recite the Great Kalimah.

Actions associated with the First Pillar of Islam have long been forgotten by all Muslims in the whole worlds. Because Muslims are neglecting the First Pillars of Islam, the Great Kalimah has not entered into the heart and minds of all Muslims. The Great Kalimah only remains in the mouth of the Muslims. Because the Great Kalimah has not entered the heart of all Muslims, all the actions of all Muslims are absent of iman and as a result all the actions of Muslims are only superficial. Every actions should have a picture, reality and names. When all actions of Muslims are absent of iman, the actions of all Muslims only have names and pictures but absent of realness. Our solat, fasting, zakat and Haj are only names and images but without the reality. When actions are devoid of reality, it has no power to attract the help of Allah. Actions without reality will not give the performer of the actions any blessing and rewards from Allah. We spend times praying and making doa but our doa and prayers are not accepted by Allah. Our prayers and doa cannot prevent us from committing sins and evils doing and our solat cannot be used by us to solved all our problems. We are wondering why all our doa are not accepted by Allah, although we are continuously making prayers and doa to Allah. Allah knows that we are making prayers and doa to him and but Allah does not fulfilled our doa because we have disobeyed the very First Pillars of Islam. We have not given any time in a day to do the action associated with the First Pillar of Islam. We are only busy with works that we think and believes will provide all our needs. We cannot be bothered to do the work that is associated with the First Pillars of Islam. We have no times for the work of inviting and reminding men and ourselves about the Great Kalimah but we have times for other works. We give time to our families, friends and to ourselves but not to the work associated with the First Pillars of Islam. Because of this our iman is very weak and our amals are devoid of realness and our doa are not accepted by Allah. What a pity, when we have the Great Kalimah with us, but because we do not carry out the right of the Great Kalimah, we are devoid from the blessing associated with the great Kalimah. Prophet Muhammad saw said in the approximate meaning “Everyone who have recited the Great Kalimah, will have its benefits, he will not have any unhappiness and no calamities will ever fall on him, unless he does not fulfil the right of the Great Kalimah”. The companions of the Prophet saw asked the Prophet saw what the right of the Great Kalimah is? Prophet saw answered in the approximate meaning, “When evils or wrong doings are done against Allah, the one who recited the Great Kalimah does not prevent the evils doers from committing the evils”. The greatest evil done by men is they do not want to testify and to recite the Great Kalimah. How should the Muslims prevent the evil doers from committing the evils? Muslims can prevent the evil doers from committing the evils by inviting the evil doers to accept and to recite the Great Kalimah. Who are the one who does not want to accept and to recite the Great Kalimah? The one who does not want to testify and to recite the Great Kalimah is the non-Muslims.

Should all Muslims invite the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah? The work of inviting the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah has been forgotten by many Muslims since hundreds of years ago CLICK. When Muslims are not inviting the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah, it means Muslims are not inviting to good and forbidding the evil. When Muslims are not inviting peoples to good and forbidding the evil, their iman are weak, they cannot become true believers and when they make doa, Allah is not accepting their doa, whatever they ask from Allah, Allah will not give them, and when they ask Allah for help, against their enemies, Allah will not help them. How Muslims could be honoured and elevated in this world, when Allah is not with the Muslims. How could Muslims win the wars against their enemies when Allah is not helping them? How could the Muslims solve all their problems when Allah is not answering their prayers or doa? Muslims will be greatly dishonoured, humiliated and devastated in this world when Muslims are disobeying the first orders of Allah, which is to enjoin peoples to good and forbidding peoples from evils. The order of enjoining peoples to good and forbidding peoples from evil is the actions related to the right of testifying that there is no God except Allah and Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah. The first Pillar of Islam is to testify that there is no God except Allah and to testify that Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah. When a person is reciting the Great Kalimah, he or she is doing good and when a person is refusing to recite the Great Kalimah he or she is doing evil. When a Muslims are not doing the work of conveying the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims and he does not pray five times daily with congregation, he is doing evils and when he or she is conveying the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims and he guard his five times prayers, he or she is doing good. When Muslims are practicing the First Pillar of Islam, their iman will become strong, they become true believers, all their actions will have names, shapes and qualities, their prayers or doa are granted, whatever they ask from Allah will be granted and Allah will help the Muslims against their enemies. Once Muslims are doing the actions related to the First Pillar of Islam, all the other Pillars of Islam become very easy to perform. All other actions related to the other pillars of Islam will be done with easiness, punctuality, steadfastness and quality. When Muslims, have done all the 5 pillars of Islam with steadfastness, punctuality and quality, their iman will increase to the higher levels and when they have the reached the level of iman required by Allah, they will become true believers or Mukmin and whenever they go they will bring with them their strong iman and good actions. When Muslims have become true believers or Mukmin, they should move in groups around the world, inviting the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah, reminding Muslims about the Great Kalimah and inviting them to convey the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims and to perform five times congregational prayers with and to teach the Muslims who wants to be the obedient servant of Allah on how to perform the orders of Allah, particularly about the First and the second order of Allah. When they are true believers or Mukmin and they move around the world in groups, they are spreading their qualities of strong iman and good actions throughout the whole world. Tabligh Jamat CLICK sent groups of peoples who are devoid of strong iman and good qualities throughout the world and because of this, iman and good actions are not spreading but what is spreading is only the words and the picture of iman and good actions.

The Second Pillar of Islam is the performance of five times congregational prayers with in the mosques for adult men and performance of five times prayers in the houses for adult women. Because the Fist Pillar of Islam was neglected by Muslims, the iman of Muslims are very weak. Many Muslims are not performing five time’s daily prayers and those who do, are praying mostly in their houses. Very few adult male Muslims are praying with congregation in the mosques and the prayers are devoid of quality. Many Muslims are performing the third Pillar of Islam which is fasting in the month of Ramadhan. Although many Muslims are fasting but the fasting are also absent of quality. With the performance of fasting, Muslims are not getting the desired qualities that should come out from the practice of fasting and five times prayers, because the practices are devoid of qualities. Although many Muslims are rich and having wealth, yet there are very few who are performing the practice of zakat and Haj which are the fourth and the fifth Pillars of Islam and these practices are also devoid of qualities. All the practices such as solat, fasting in the months of Ramadan, giving of zakat and performance of Haj are devoid of qualities because Muslims have forgetting and ignorant on how to practice the first Pillar of Islam. The foundation of Islam is the Five Pillar of Islam and the foundation of the Five Pillar of Islam is the First Pillar of Islam. Islam is destroyed when the very foundation of Islam which is the actions associated with the First Pillar of Islam is neglected by all Muslims.

Prof Dr Nasoha Saabin
May 2011
Integrative Holistic Wellness Centre