ما الشهادة في الإسلام؟

The shahada is the testimony that there is no god but God and that Muhammad is the Messenger of God ﷺ. It is the first of the pillars, and through it a person enters Islam.

In Islam, the shahada is the statement: there is no god but God, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God. It is the first item named in the hadith "Islam is built upon five" ¹. The shahada means affirmation with both the heart and the tongue. Its details are set out in the entry on the shahada. The shahada is tied to the root principle of tawhid, covered in the entry Tawhid, and to the five pillars of Islam, as set out in the pillars of Islam.

Details and jurisprudential disagreements are added in the related entries.