Hosai Mojaddidi – Daisy’s Shahadah (Declaration of Faith)

When I

said I want to go, everyone, we are so honored today here at MCC

because we have our soon to be new sister Daisy, who came to the

masjid recently was interested in learning about Islam worked with

the Convert program here, the new Muslim program, excuse me to learn

more about Islam. And so she has decided today that she wants to

take her shahada, which is the declaration of faith and enter

this beautiful faith. And we are so honored to have you with us and

that you selected this space. And it's time to do it to do this. So

welcome to you. We have next to you, a friend of yours that you've

met here through this msgid. Right. This is your Lisette who I

here has been instrumental in teaching you and making this

moment happen. So very honored again to have you here with us.

So, Daisy, we spoke briefly before.

And I just explained to the process, I'm going to go ahead and

explain it again. When a person chooses to enter Islam, it's very

simple. All that's required is that they make a testimony of

faith, whatever, what they believe in front of witnesses. So it's

something that they articulate outside because you clearly have

belief, right? You already have that belief. That's why you're

here. But now it's a matter of making sure that there's witnesses

to hear your testimony of faith. So that's what we're going to do.

And it's two simple statements. Okay, the first statement, I'll

say it in English for you. And then what we'll do is, after I

explained the translation of what we're going to say, we'll say them

in Arabic, and we'll go slowly, once it's done. That's the process

you've entered Islam. Okay. So this the first statement is, I

testify that there is nothing worthy of worship, except God. So

can you say that for me? I testify that there's nothing really with

God. Very good. And then the second statement is, I testify

that Muhammad is his last and final messenger testify that

Muhammad is His final last messenger Excellent. Mashallah.

Very good. So now the Arabic of those two statements we're gonna

say together, okay. And I'm gonna go slow. Alright. So the first

part is, Ash had to shed and

let ilaha

IL Allah

wa

should I do?

Or should do, anna

Muhammadan

rasul Allah. Rasool Allah subhana wa COVID. Collect by myself.

That's it. You have now officially become a Muslim. You are our

sister in Islam. We welcome you to a family that is larger than this

group here. 1.8 almost a billion brothers and sisters that that you

have just joined this family of and we're so happy and so honored

to have you. And if you have any follow up questions. We're here

for you.

Welcome. Thank you