The Arabic phrase lâ ilâha illâ allâh is one of major pillars of the Muslim faith. This sacred phrase is a part of the basic Muslim statement of faith, it is a part of the call to prayer that echoes across the country-side five times a day throughout the Muslim world, it is chanted as a central part of virtually every Sufi gathering, and it appears in two verses of the glorious Qur'ân as follows:
For they when they were told that
there is no god except Allah,
would puff themselves up with pride and say:
"What! shall we give up our gods for the sake of a Poet possessed?"
Sura as-Saffat (37:35-36)
based on tr by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Know therefore that there is no god but Allâh
and ask forgiveness for thy sins
and for [the sins of] the men and women who believe:
for Allâh knows how ye move about
and how ye dwell in your homes.