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A mancus gold dinar of king Offa of Mercia, copied from the dinars of the Abbasid Caliphate (774); it includes the Arabic text "Muhammad is the Messenger of God". The Qibla of the Fatimid caliph al-Mustansir Billah in the Mosque of Ibn Tulun, Cairo showing the Shia shahada that ends with the phrase "'Aliyyan Waliyyullah" ("Ali is the vicegerent ...
La ilaha illallah, Muhammadun rasulullah (English translation: "There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is Allah’s messenger"). White background with Shahadah written in Islamic calligraphy is currently used as the present-day flag of Afghanistan.
The national flag of Saudi Arabia [a] is a green background with Arabic inscription and a sword in white. The inscription is the Islamic creed, or shahada: "There is no deity but God; Muhammad is the Messenger of God". The current design has been used by the government of Saudi Arabia since 15 March 1973.
Imam al-Tabarani also narrated on the authority of Ali ibn Abi Talib that Muhammad taught him to say the following words at times of fear: "la illaha il allah al-Ḥalīm al-Kareem, Subhan'Allah wa tabarak Allah rabb al-‘Arsh al-‘Adheem, wal Hamdulilahi Rabb al-‘Alameen" (There is no god but God, The Forbearing and Generous. Glory be to ...
For example, in the Islamic Creed (Arabic: Shahada): Arabic text: أشهد أن لا إله إلاَّ لله ، وأشهد أن محمدًا رسول الله; Romanization: 'ašhadu 'al-lā ilāha illā-llāh; English translations: I testify that there is no god but God. [2]
In Arabic, ilah refers to anyone or anything that is worshipped. [2] The feminine is ʾilāhat (إلاهة, meaning "goddess"); [3] with the article, it appears as al-ʾilāhat (الإلاهة). [4] The Arabic word for God is thought to be derived from it (in a proposed earlier form al-Lāh) though this is disputed.
La ilaha illallah, in his opinion, suggests the total unity of God and rejects identification with numerous other gods. Since Allah is a proper name that captures the essence of Allah uniquely, derivatives are not appropriate.
Arabic calligraphy of the Hawqala. The Ḥawla (Arabic: حَوْلَة) or the LaHawla (Arabic: لَا حَوْلَ) is an Arabic term referring to the Arabic statement لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِٱللَّٰهِ (lā ḥawla wa lā quwwata illā billāh i), which is usually translated as "There is no power nor strength except by God."