So Said The Promised Messiah (as) — Page 145
You should take your God to be One and without any partner as you declare through the words: Ash hado alla ila- ha illallah i. e. I bear witness that there is none other than Allah who is our beloved and whom we are seeking after and whom we have to obey. It is so lovely a phrase that ifthe Jews and Christians or other idol worshippers had been taught this thing and if they had understood it properly, they would have never perished. The reason why they have perished is that they did not have this Kalima; that is what made their soul leprous and that is what caused destruction. (Malfoozat, Vol. III, p. 184) ONENESS OF GOD The mere lip-profession of the Oneness of God does not attract the blessings that are connected with this profession coupled with its other essentials, that is, the appropriate deeds. It is quite true that the belief in the Oneness of God is a strong pillar which a true Muslim and every other person who really and truly fears God should hold fast but there is another aspect of this belief also and that is the love of God; that is, one should love God. The main aim of the teachings o( the Holy Quran is that just as God is One, without any partners, He should also be One without partners in the matter of our love. All the prophets have been teaching the same thing; that has been the main subject of their propagation. La ilaha illallah teaches us to believe God to be One and at the same time it also teaches that one should be perfect in the love of this one God. La ilaha illallah is so beautiful a sentence, and so mean- ingful, that the like of it is not to be found in any of the Scriptures, be it Torah or the Gospels or any other Book: no other Book contains so comprehensive teachings.