Islām and submission in the Qur’ān and the Sabīl library
Islām in the Qur’ān, the five pillars as the ḥadīth of Jibrīl lists them, the testimony of faith, and dying as a Muslim, with every source listed.
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Islām is, in 3:19 below, the true religion with Allah. The edition the app uses keeps the word Islam there and renders its kin as submitting in others (2:128, 6:163); in two of the verses below (12:101, 41:33) it adds to “Muslim” the words “submitting to You” or “submitting to Allah”. In the verses below it is also something asked for: to be among those who submit, and to die submitting. This page sets out the testimony with which a person enters Islām, the five pillars as the narrations list them, and the verses in which the Qur’ān speaks of submitting. Every verse is shown with Tanzil’s Arabic and its meaning in the edition the app uses, and every narration is named by its collection and number at the end. Some verses are shown with the edition’s own notes beneath them; those are that edition’s words, not this page’s; some say what a word means and some give the edition’s own counsel, and this page has not checked them. The page gives no ruling.
The religion with Allah
The Qur’ān says that the true religion with Allah is Islām.
Hakika, Dini kwa Mwenyezi Mungu ni Uislamu. Na hawakuhitilafiana wale waliopewa Kitabu isipokuwa baada ya kujiwa na elimu, kwa sababu ya uhasidi uliokuwa baina yao. Na mwenye kuzikufuru Ishara za Mwenyezi Mungu, basi hakika Mwenyezi Mungu ni Mwepesi wa kuhesabu.
Qur’ani 3:19Swahili Translation - Rowad Translation Center · QuranEnc.com · version 1.0.5
The testimony of faith
The library’s title The First Forty Days opens with an entry headed “The testimony of faith”: the words of the testimony, that there is no god but Allah and that Muḥammad is the Messenger of Allah, with their transliteration and meaning, and beneath them a line of the library’s own on when the testimony is enough. That line is the library’s, its scholarly review is pending, and this page gives no ruling on it: for what applies to your own situation, ask a scholar. The source line cites Muslim with the grade ṣaḥīḥ for a saying that Islām erases what came before it; in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ reports the Prophet ﷺ saying it to him when he came to accept Islām. The last line of the entry, “Then, on the first day”, heads the steps that follow it in the title, and is not a note on the testimony.
Tafsiri ya rasimu: imetengenezwa na mashine kutoka Kiarabu na Kiingereza, na bado haijasomwa na mwanazuoni wala mhariri mzawa wa lugha. Pale mstari usipoeleweka, onyesha Kiingereza na utegemee Kiarabu.
Mistari inayohusu hukumu huonyeshwa kila mara pamoja na Kiingereza cha chapa chini yake. Mstari ambao rasimu yake haikupita ukaguzi huonyeshwa kwa Kiingereza pekee.
Ash-hadu an lā ilāha illallāh, wa ash-hadu anna Muḥammadan Rasūlullāh
Nashuhudia kwamba hakuna mungu ila Allah, na nashuhudia kwamba Muhammad ni Mtume wa Allah.
Ikisemwa pamoja na imani moyoni, hii inatosha. Kusihi kwake hakuhitaji shahidi, wala sherehe, wala cheti, wala jina la Kiarabu. Uislamu ukikubaliwa hufuta kila kilichoutangulia.
Kiingereza cha chapa, huonyeshwa kila mara:
Said with belief in the heart, this is enough. No witness is required for its validity, no ceremony, no certificate, and no Arabic name. Islam accepted erases everything that came before it.
Muslim · sahihi — “Uislamu hubomoa yaliyoutangulia.”
In the ḥadīth of Jibrīl, as ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb reports it in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, the Prophet ﷺ is asked about Islām and answers with five things: to testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muḥammad is the Messenger of Allah, to establish the prayer, to give zakāh, to fast Ramaḍān, and to make the pilgrimage to the House for one who is able. Ibn ʿUmar reports the Prophet ﷺ saying that Islām is built upon five, and names five. In al-Bukhārī’s narration of it, and in two of Muslim’s, the pilgrimage comes before the fast; in another of Muslim’s, Ibn ʿUmar himself corrects a man who put the pilgrimage first, saying that this is how he heard it from the Prophet ﷺ.
The library’s Forty Ḥadīth of an-Nawawī sets out the five in its card on Ibn ʿUmar’s narration, but that title is a single entry with open questions in the library’s own checking, and it is not quoted here. Two of the library’s posters carry the pillars’ places in the order of Muslim’s narrations: the poster How to Pray is headed “The second pillar”, and the Ramaḍān poster “The fourth pillar”. The posters hold lines on rulings and on where the schools differ, which this page does not repeat.
Submitting
Islām in the Qur’ān is also a request. In one verse a du‘ā asks that the two who make it be made submitted to Allah, and a nation of their descendants too, and that they be shown their rituals and their repentance accepted. The du‘ā begins in the verse before it (2:127), where Ibrāhīm and Ismāʿīl, raising the foundations of the House, ask their Lord to accept it from them; this verse continues it. The edition’s note on it is shown with the verse.
Ewe Mola Mlezi wetu! Tujaalie tuwe ni wenye kusilimu kwako, na pia miongoni mwa vizazi vyetu wawe umma uliosilimu kwako. Na utuonyeshe njia za ibada yetu na utusamehe. Bila shaka Wewe ndiye Mwenye kusamehe, Mwenye kurehemu.
Qur’ani 2:128Swahili Translation - Rowad Translation Center · QuranEnc.com · version 1.0.5
And Ibrāhīm and Yaʿqūb enjoined it on their children, telling them that Allah had chosen this religion for them, and that they should not die except as Muslims.
Na Ibrahim akawausia wanawe hilo, na pia Yaaqub: Enyi wanangu! Hakika Mwenyezi Mungu amekuteulieni Dini hii. Basi kamwe msife ila nanyi ni Waislamu.[1]
[1] Yani aliichagua na akawateulia kama rehema na wema. Basi inapasa kusimama nayo na kusifika kwa sheria zake, na kujipaka maadili yake na kudumu namna hiyo hadi kifo. Kwa sababu, mwenye kuishi juu ya kitu, atakufa juu yake. Na mwenye kufa juu ya kitu, atafufuliwa juu yake.
Qur’ani 2:132Swahili Translation - Rowad Translation Center · QuranEnc.com · version 1.0.5
Prayer, sacrifice, living and dying
Two verses name prayer, sacrifice, living and dying together. The Prophet ﷺ is told to say that his prayer, his sacrifice, his living and his dying are all for Allah, Lord of the worlds; that He has no partner; that this is what he has been commanded; and that he is the first to submit to Allah.
Hana mshirika yeyote. Na hayo ndiyo niliyoamrishwa, na mimi ni wa kwanza wa Waislamu."
Qur’ani 6:163Swahili Translation - Rowad Translation Center · QuranEnc.com · version 1.0.5
Dying as a Muslim
Besides 2:132, two more verses speak of dying as a Muslim. One tells the believers to fear Allah as He should be feared, and not to die except as Muslims.
Enyi mlioamini! Mcheni Mwenyezi Mungu haki ya kumcha, wala kamwe msife isipokuwa nyinyi ni Waislamu.
Qur’ani 3:102Swahili Translation - Rowad Translation Center · QuranEnc.com · version 1.0.5
The other is a du‘ā near the end of Sūrah Yūsuf: the speaker says to his Lord that He has given him authority and taught him something of the interpretation of dreams, and asks to be made to die as a Muslim and joined with the righteous.
Ewe Mola wangu Mlezi! Hakika umenipa katika ufalme, na umenifunza katika tafsiri ya mambo. Ewe Muumba wa mbingu na ardhi! Wewe ndiye Mlinzi wangu katika dunia na Akhera. Nifishe hali ya kuwa ni Muislamu na niunganishe na walio wema.
Qur’ani 12:101Swahili Translation - Rowad Translation Center · QuranEnc.com · version 1.0.5
Muslims named in the verses
One verse names Muslim men and women first in a list: believing, obedient, truthful, patient, humble, charitable and fasting men and women, those who guard their chastity and those who remember Allah much; for all of them Allah has prepared forgiveness and a great reward.
Hakika Waislamu wanaume na Waislamu wanawake, na Waumini wanaume na Waumini wanawake, na wanaume watiifu na wanawake watiifu, na wanaume wakweli na wanawake wakweli, na wanaume wanaosubiri, na wanawake wanaosubiri, na wanaume wanyenyekevu na wanawake wanyenyekevu, na wanaume watoao sadaka na wanawake watoao sadaka, na wanaume wanaofunga saumu na wanawake wanaofunga saumu, na wanaume wanaojihifadhi tupu zao, na wanawake wanaojihifadhi tupu zao, na wanaume wanaomdhukuru Mwenyezi Mungu kwa wingi na wanawake wanaomdhukuru Mwenyezi Mungu kwa wingi, Mwenyezi Mungu amewaandalia msamaha na ujira mkubwa.
Qur’ani 33:35Swahili Translation - Rowad Translation Center · QuranEnc.com · version 1.0.5
And another asks who is better in speech than one who calls to Allah, does righteous deeds, and says that he is one of the Muslims.
Na ni nani mbora zaidi wa kusema kuliko aitaye kwa Mwenyezi Mungu na akatenda mema, na akasema: Hakika mimi ni katika Waislamu?
Qur’ani 41:33Swahili Translation - Rowad Translation Center · QuranEnc.com · version 1.0.5
References
Verses of the Qur’ān, by sūrah and verse, shown above: 2:128; 2:132; 3:19; 3:102; 6:162–163; 12:101; 33:35; 41:33. Named in the prose: 2:127.
Narrations, by collection and number as sunnah.com numbers them: al-Bukhārī by the numbering of Fatḥ al-Bārī; Muslim by Muḥammad Fuʾād ʿAbd al-Bāqī’s numbers, with the letter sunnah.com adds where it divides one.
Islām erases what came before it, to ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ: Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 121.
The ḥadīth of Jibrīl, Islām and its five: Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 8a.
Islām is built upon five: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 8; Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 16a, with Ibn ʿUmar’s correction of the order (in the Arabic; sunnah.com’s English leaves out his last words); Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 16b and 16c, with the pilgrimage before the fast.
The Qur’ān has every verse above in its sūrah, with its meanings.
The First Forty Days is the title the testimony’s entry comes from; its step-by-step path is at Learn.
Īmān and belief in the Qur’ān and the Sabīl library is the companion page on īmān, with the verse in which the Bedouins are told to say that they have submitted, because faith has not yet entered their hearts.