ENACTMENT NO. 4 OF 2004 ADMINISTRATION OF THE RELIGION OF ISLAM (PERAK) ENACTMENT 2004
PART IX - CONVERSION TO THE RELIGION OF ISLAM
Section 96. Requirement for conversion to the religion of Islam.
(1) The following requirements shall be complied with for a valid conversion of a person to the religion of Islam:
(a) the person must utter in reasonably intelligible Arabic the two clauses of the Affirmation of Faith;
(b) at the time of uttering the two clauses of the Affirmation of Faith the person must be aware that they mean "I bear witness that there is no God but Allah and I bear witness that the Prophet Muhammad S.A.W. is the Messenger of Allah"; and
(c) the utterance must be made of the person's own free will.
(2) A person who is incapable of speech may, for the purpose of fulfilling the requirement of paragraph (1)(a), utter the two clauses of the Affirmation of Faith by means of signs that convey the meaning specified in paragraph (i)(b).