The Shahadah Kit
The Shahadah Kit is one box, given free to anyone who has just become Muslim, containing everything needed to get through the first week without having to work out what to buy or who to ask. It pairs with our wider new Muslim guide, which covers prayer, registration and telling family.
You do not need to have taken your shahadah with us to receive one.
Why a box
Saying the shahadah takes under a minute. What follows it is a long list of small practical problems that nobody warns you about, and each one is individually trivial and collectively exhausting.
You do not own a prayer mat. You are not sure whether you are supposed to have a particular cap. You want to read the Qur’an but do not know which translation to trust. You would like to learn the morning supplications but have no idea which book they are in. And every one of those questions feels too small to bother anyone with, so most people bother nobody and quietly fall behind.
The Shahadah Kit removes that entire category of problem in one go. Somebody hands you a box, and the questions you were going to spend three weeks feeling awkward about are simply answered.
What is inside the Shahadah Kit
To read
An Arabic Qur’an, and a Qur’an translation in a language you read comfortably. An introductory book on the religion, and a set of pamphlets. A bookmark, because a Qur’an you have lost your place in tends to stay closed.
To pray
A prayer mat. A kain pelekat and a kopiah. A digital tasbih counter.
To learn day to day
Fortress of the Muslim, the collection of morning and evening supplications. Asma ul Husna, the names of God, with the meanings printed alongside rather than the Arabic alone.
And two small things
A bottle of attar, and a fridge magnet.
Why these particular items
The list looks ordinary written down. Each item is there for a reason we have watched matter.
The kopiah and the kain pelekat. These are the difference between walking into a mosque for the first time feeling properly dressed, and standing at the entrance wondering whether you are about to embarrass yourself. That single worry stops more new Muslims from attending than any question of belief does.
Asma ul Husna with the meanings. Plenty of editions print the Arabic and nothing else, which is fine for somebody who already knows them. For a new Muslim the meanings are the entire point, because a name you understand changes how you pray and a name you cannot read does not.
Fortress of the Muslim. The morning and evening supplications give a shape to the day beyond the five prayers, and having them in one small book means you are not searching for them online at six in the morning.
The digital counter. A small thing that removes a small friction, which is the whole philosophy of the box.
The fridge magnet. Not everything has to be solemn.
How to get one
Message us and say that you have recently become Muslim, or are about to. That is the whole process. There is no form to fill in, no eligibility to prove, and no cost.
You do not need to have converted through us. If you took your shahadah at a different mosque, in another state, or in another country entirely, you are just as welcome to a kit. We are not counting anybody and this is not a recruitment exercise.
Collect at the academy at PV8, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur, or tell us if getting there is difficult and we will work something out.
The box is the start rather than the whole of it. Group classes, help with the registration paperwork, and one to one lessons online all run alongside it, and those are set out on the new Muslim support page. If you have not taken your shahadah and are still thinking, nothing here is being asked of you, and you can ask us anything anonymously instead.
Sponsor a Shahadah Kit
Every kit that goes out was paid for by somebody. If you would like to contribute towards them, we would be glad of it.
We are deliberately not putting a payment button on this page. Instead, contact the Wisdom Hub team and we will tell you what a kit currently costs to assemble, what we are short of at the moment, and how to give. Sometimes what we need is not money at all but a particular item, or Qur’an translations in a language we have run out of.
What your infaq actually buys. A box handed to somebody in their first week as a Muslim, at the precise point where practical help matters more than encouragement does. It is a narrow, concrete thing rather than a general fund.
If you would rather give time than money, that is equally useful. Our volunteers pack the boxes, guide the mosque tours and run the Sunday table, and that is where it starts.
Nobody should do the first week alone
That is what the box is for. A prayer mat, a cap, a translation you can actually read, and somebody to ask when the next question arrives.
Wisdom Hub Academy is a small dawah academy at PV8 in Setapak, run by a handful of volunteers. Here is who we are.