Mufti Menk – The True Essence Of Islam

In nalilahi wa inna Ilahi Raji on, if you understand that statement

and you say it correctly, Allah will grant you the ability to go

through what he has chosen for you. And you always need to be

happy at the decree of Allah.

When a person converts to Islam

or reverts to Islam,

we make them utter the Shahada. We make them say, Ash hadu, Allah,

ILAHA, illallah, wa ashhadu, Anna, Muhammadan, Rasulullah. I bear

witness there is none worthy of worship besides Allah. I bear

witness that Muhammad, sallAllahu, Sallam is the messenger of Allah.

They say it by tongue.

They should be believing it by their heart. When they believe it

by the heart, they are called the min Iman. Notice when you say the

pillars of Islam, people mention the five pillars. These five

pillars, they are easy to see because they are more actions. So

you have your utterance of the shahada, you have your five daily

prayers, you have your zakah, you have your Psalm or fasting. People

can see you're giving charity. People can see you're abstaining

from food, and people can see that you've gone for Hajj. These are

things that people can see that's Islam. Islam to submit to Allah.

You've submitted physically, but has your heart submitted to Allah?