There is none worthy of worship except Allah alone

The Meaning of Lā Ilāha Illa Allāh

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In Arabic, the meaning of the first part of the Shahadah is:

لَا مَعْبُودَ بِحَقٍّ إِلَّا الله

There is none worthy of worship in truth except Allah.

 If anything other than Allah is worshipped then it is false:

Allah the Exalted said:

ذلِكَ بِأَنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ الْحَقُّ وَأَنَّ مَا يَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِهِ هُوَ الْبَـاطِلُ وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ الْعَلِىُّ الْكَبِيرُ

{That is because Allah is the Truth, and that which they call upon other than Him is falsehood, and because Allah is the Most High, the Great}

[al-Hajj (22): 62]

And He the Exalted said:

فَاعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ لاَ إِلَـهَ إِلأاللَّهُ

{Know! there is none worthy of worship except Allah…}

[Muhammad (47): 19]

Muhammad b. ‘Abd al-Wahhab al-Wasabi al-‘Abdali, al-Qawl al-Mufid fi Adillat al-Tawhid, (San’a: Maktabat al-Irshad, 1427/2006), 27.

Marketplace

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Upon entering the marketplace, it is recommended for one to read the following supplication [in green]:

On the authority of ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb [who narrated] that the Messenger of Allāh, may the praise and protection of Allāh be upon him, said:

“Whoever enters the marketplace and says, ‘There is none worthy of worship except Allāh alone without any partners, to Him belongs the dominion and to Him belongs all praise, He gives life and causes death, He is the All-Living and does not die, in His Hand is all goodness, and He has power over all things’, Allāh will write a million good deeds for him, and wipe a million evil deeds away from him, and raise a million ranks for him.”

Reported by al-Tirmidhī.

Ḥasan: al-Tirmidhī (3428) and in the Dār al-Taʾṣīl edition (3746). Ibn Mājah (2235). Aḥmad (327). See: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Targhīb wa al-Tarhīb (1694) of al-Albānī.