The Six Kalimah (from Arabic كلمةkalimah "word") in Islam are six significant parts of one's religious belief, mostly taken from hadiths (in some traditions, six phrases, then known as the six kalimas[clarification needed]).
The first of them, known as the ''kalimat tayyibah or "word of purity", second is called the shahada (evidence), third "tamjeed" (Glory Of Allah), fourth "tawheed"(Oneness of Allah), fifth "istighfar"(Repentance) and sixth is called "radde kufr"(Refutation of Disbelief). Recitation of the six kalimas is taught in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and other Muslim countries' madrasas,[1] Conversely, religious leaders are expected to be able to recite them, and the Pakistani Ministry of Religious Affairs in one instance earned political criticism for appointing as head of its Council of Islamic Ideology a man who was not able to recite them.[2]
Riaz (2008) records memorization of the six kalimas as part of the syllabus of grade 3 (darja saum) education (i.e. taught in the third year of a five-year course) at the Deobandi school Darul Uloom Deoband in Uttar Pradesh, India.[3]
Exalted is Allah, and [all] praise is due to Allah, and there is no deity except Allah, and Allah is the Greatest. And there is no might nor power except in Allah, the Most High, the Most Great.
Subḥāna-llāhi, wa-l-ḥamdu li-llāhi, wa lā ilāha illā-llāhu, Wa-llāhu akbar, Wa lā ḥawla wa lā quwwata illā bi-llāhi-l-ʿalīyyi-l-ʿaẓīm.
There is none worthy of worship except Allah. He is Alone and has no partners. To Him belongs the Kingdom and for Him is all Praise. He gives life and causes death. He is eternal and ubiquitous. He of Majesty and Munificence. In His Hand is all good. And He has power over everything.
lā ilāha illā-llāhu waḥdahu lā sharīka lahu lahu l-mulku wa lahu l-ḥamdu yuḥyi wa yumītu wa huwa ḥayyul lā yamūtu abadan abada ḏhu l-jalāli wa l-ʾikrām biyadihi-l k͟hayr wa-huwa ʿala-kulli shayʾin qadīr.
I seek forgiveness from Allah, my Lord, from every sin I committed knowingly or unknowingly, secretly or openly, and I turn towards Him from the sin that I know and from the sin that I do not know. Certainly You, You (are) the knower of the hidden things and the Concealer (of) the mistakes and the Forgiver (of) the sins. And (there is) no power and no strength except from Allah, the Most High, the Most Great.
astaġhfiru-llāha rabbī min kulli thanbin athnabtuhu ʿamadan ʾaw k͟haṭāʾan sirran ʾaw ʿalāniyyataw wa atūbu ʾilayhi minal ḏhanbi-llaḏhī aʿlamu wa minal ḏhanbi-llaḏhī lā aʿlamu innaka ʾanta ʿallāmul-ġhuyūbi wa sattārul-ʿuyūbi wa ġhaffāru ḏhunūbi wa lā ḥawla wa lā quwwata illā billāhil-ʿalīyyil-ʿaẓīm.
O Allah! I seek protection in You from that I should not join any partner with You and I have knowledge of it. I seek Your forgiveness from that which I do not know. I repent from it (ignorance) and I reject disbelief and joining partners with You and of falsehood and slandering and innovation in religion and tell-tales and evil deeds and the blame and the disobedience, all of them. I submit to Your will and I believe and I declare: There is none worthy of worship except Allah and Muhammad is His Messenger.
Allāhumma innī aʿūḏhu bika min an ušrika bika šayʾaw-wwa-anā aʿlamu bihi wa-staġhfiruka limā lā aʿlamu bihi tubtu ʿanhu wa tabarra'tu mina-l-kufri wa-š-širki wa-l-kiḏhbi wa-l-ġhībati wa-l-bidʿati wa-nnamīmati wa-l-fawāḥiši wa-l-buhtāni wa-l-maʿāṣī kullihā wa aslamtu wa aqūlu lā ilāha illā-llāhu Muḥammadu-r-rasūlu llāh.
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References
^Yoginder Sikand, Bastions of the Believers: Madrasas and Islamic Education in India, Penguin Books India, 2005
^Pakistan, Political Perspective, Volume 5, Issues 9-12, Institute of Policy Studies, 1996, p. 69
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