The
Six Kalimahs (from Arabic:
كلمة,
kalimah, "word") are recorded in various books of knowledge, and are recited (and memorized) by Muslims across the globe. These kalimahs were compiled together for people to memorize and learn the fundamentals of Islam. These have been compiled from various Sahih Hadiths. Kalimas are not verses of Quran.
Listed below are the Six Kalmas.
- 1 Kalimah Tayyibah
- 2 Kalimah Shahadah
- 3 Kalimah Tamjeed
- 4 Kalimah Tawheed
- 5 Kalimah Astighfar
- 6 Kalimah Raddil Kufr
Kalimah Tayyibah
Also known as the Word of Purity or the kalima-e-tayyabah.
- Arabic text
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- لَآ اِلٰهَ اِلَّا اللّٰهُ مُحَمَّدٌ رَّسُوْلُ اللّٰهِؕ
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- "lā ilaha illela Allahu, Muhammad ur-rasul Ullah"
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- There is no god but Allah, Muhammad [peace be upon him] is the messenger of Allah.
Kalimah Shahadah
Also known as the word of testimony or the
kalima-e-shahaadat or shahada
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- اَشْهَدُ اَنْ لَّآ اِلٰهَ اِلَّا اللہُ وَحْدَهٗ لَا شَرِيْكَ لَهٗ وَ اَشْهَدُ اَنَّ مُحَمَّدً اعَبْدُهٗ وَرَسُوْلُهٗؕ
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- Ašh-hadu an-lā ilāha il-lal-lahu, wah-dahu, lā sha-reeka lahu, wa ašh-hadu an-na Muḥammadan ʿabduhu wa rasūluhu.
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- I bear witness that (there is) no god except Allah; One is He, no partner hath He, and I bear witness that Muhammad (Sall-Allahu Alayhi wa Sallam) is His Servant and Messenger.
Kalimah Tamjeed
Also known as the word of glorification or the
kalima-e-tamjeed
سُبْحَان اللهِ وَ الْحَمْدُ لِلّهِ
وَ لآ اِلهَ اِلّا اللّهُ وَ اللّهُ اَكْبَرُ وَلا حَوْلَ وَلاَ قُوَّة ِ
الَّا بِاللّهِ الْعَلِىّ الْعَظِيْم
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- Subhāna-llāhi,
wa-l-hamdu li-llāhi, wa lā ilāha illā-llāhu, wa-llāhu akbar. Wa lā
hawla wa lā quwwata illā bi-llāhi-l-ʿaliyyi-l-ʿazīm
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- Exalted is Allah, and praise be 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.
Kalimah Tawheed
Also known as the word of unity or the
kalima-e-tawhid
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- لَآ
اِلٰهَ اِلَّا اللهُ وَحْدَهٗ لَا شَرِيْكَ لَهٗ لَهُ الْمُلْكُ وَ لَهُ
الْحَمْدُ يُحْىٖ وَ يُمِيْتُ وَ هُوَحَیٌّ لَّا يَمُوْتُ اَبَدًا اَبَدًاؕ
ذُو الْجَلَالِ وَالْاِكْرَامِؕ بِيَدِهِ الْخَيْرُؕ وَهُوَ عَلٰى كُلِّ
شیْ ٍٔ قَدِیْرٌؕ
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- la
ilaha ill-allahu waḥdahu lā Sharīka lahu la-hul-mulku wa lahu'l-ḥamdu
yuh-yi wa yumītu wa huwa ḥayyu-llā yamūtu abadan abada, ḏū-l-jalāli
wa-l-ikrām, biyadihi-l-khayr, wa huwa ʿalā kulli shayʾin qadīr.
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- (There is) no god except Allah - One is He, no partners hath He. His
is the Dominion, and His is the Praise. He gives life and causes death,
and He is Living, who will not die, never. He of Majesty and
Munificence. Within His Hand is (all) good. And He is, upon everything,
Able (to exert His Will).
Kalimah Astighfar
The word of Penitence
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- اَسْتَغْفِرُ
اللهَ رَبِّىْ مِنْ كُلِّ ذَنْۢبٍ اَذْنَبْتُهٗ عَمَدًا اَوْ خَطَا ًٔ
سِرًّا اَوْ عَلَانِيَةً وَّاَتُوْبُ اِلَيْهِ مِنَ الذَّنْۢبِ الَّذِیْٓ
اَعْلَمُ وَ مِنَ الذَّنْۢبِ الَّذِىْ لَآ اَعْلَمُ اِنَّكَ اَنْتَ
عَلَّامُ الْغُيُوْبِ وَ سَتَّارُ الْعُيُوْبِ و َغَفَّارُ الذُّنُوْبِ وَ
لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ اِلَّا بِاللهِ الْعَلِىِّ الْعَظِيْمِؕ
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- 'astaġfiru-llāha rabbī min kulli zanbin aznabtuhu ʿamadan aw
khaṭāʾan sirran aw ʿalāniyyatan wa atūbu ilayhi mina-thanbi-llaḏī aʿlamu
wa mina-thanbi-llaḏī lā aʿlamu innaka anta ʿallāmu-l-ġuyūbi wa
sattāru-l-ʿuyūbi wa ġaffāru-thunūbi wa lā ḥawla wa lā quwwata illā
bi-llāhi-l-ʿaliyyi-l-ʿaẓīm.
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- "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".
Kalimah Raddil Kufr
The words of rejecting disbelief
Allahumma innii a'udhu bika min an ushrika bika shai-anw- wa ana
a'lamu bihii. Was tagh fi ru ka limaa laa alamu bihee. Tubtu anhu wa
tabar-ra'-tu min al-kufri wash-shirki wal-kizdhbi wal-ghiibati
wal-bid’ati wan-namiimati wal fawaahishi wal-buhtani w-al-ma’aasii
kulliha. Wa aslamtu wa aquulu La illaha illAllahu Muhammadur RasulAllah
(O Allah! Certainly I seek protection with You from, that I associate
partner with You anything and I know it. And I seek forgiveness from
You for that I do not know it. I repented from it and I made myself free
from disbelief and polytheism and the falsehood and the back-biting and
the innovation and the tell-tales and the bad deeds and the blame and
the disobedience, all of them. And I submit and I say (there is) none
worthy of worship except Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.)
), and along with
Sahih al-Bukhari forms the "Sahihain," or the "Two Sahihs."
It contains roughly 7500 hadith (with repetitions) in 57 books.
