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POPSShahadah from a Jewish Perspective The Muslim declaration of faith (Shahadah = testimony, and from the same root as ‘shaheed’ which you can roughly translate as ‘martyr’) runs thus: “There is no divinity but Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah”. At one time I used to wonder about this — question why we took the name of the Prophet alongside that of God. Why, if we submitted to God, did we have to declare our allegiance to a man chosen by God to spread the word? Eventually I came to accept this as the best summation of our religion of Islam. We submitted wholly to Allah in the latest format as preached by Muhammad. It made sense to me. Then I read this and some of the old thoughts (…and doubts) came flooding back: