Quora Answer: If I Say the Shahadah, Do I Automatically become Muslim?
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
The following is my answer to a Quora question: “If I say the shahadah, do I automatically become Muslim?”
The shahadah is
not some magical incantation. Reciting
it does not make you a Muslim, and open the gates of Paradise. You have to understand what you say, that
there are no deities except the One God, and that Muhammad (s.a.w.) is
the final prophet. And you have to
recite it with the intent of being a Muslim. As such, no one ever accidentally becomes a
Muslim. Conversion is always a
deliberate, conscious act.
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