What are the nine conditions mentioned by scholars for entering Paradise related to the [declaration of faith] 'the Kalimah', and is merely uttering it not enough?
The declaration of faith (the two Shahadas) has conditions: knowledge of its meaning, certainty of its implication that negates doubt, acceptance of what it necessitates with the heart and tongue, submission to what it indicates, truthfulness in it, sincerity by purifying one's actions from polytheism, and love for this word and its people, and hatred for what contradicts it, in addition to disbelieving in whatever is worshipped besides Allah.
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