In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “accepting islam as a religion or faith and rejecting any other religion or irreligion”. Today it says “adopting islam as a religion or faith”.
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The opening as it read in 2025
Conversion to Islam , also known within Islam as reversion , is adopting Islam as a religion or faith. Conversion requires a formal statement of the shahādah , the credo of Islam, whereby the prospective convert must state that "there is none worthy of worship in truth except Allah and Muhammad is the last messenger of Allah." Proselytism of the faith is referred to as " dawah ," and missionary efforts have been promoted since the dawn of the religion in the 7th century. Statistics relating to the number of converts to Islam are scarce and often unreliable.
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Redirect to: Religious conversion#Islam
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Redirect to: Religious conversion#Islam To a section : This is a redirect from a topic that does not have its own page to a section of a page on the subject.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023 1 passage from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Religious conversion Conversion to Islam is accepting Islam as a religion or faith and rejecting any other religion or irreligion .
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Today
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “accepting islam as a religion or faith and rejecting any other religion or irreligion”. Today it says “adopting islam as a religion or faith”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
accepting islam as a religion or faith and rejecting any other religion or irreligion
Now
adopting islam as a religion or faith
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