To become a Muslim you must believe (not to obey) in two things:
1. The Creator of the universe is One
2. Mohammad is His Messenger
Officially to become a Muslim you only have to declare the Shahadah as follows:
"ASH-HADU ANLA ELAHA ILLA-ALLAH WA ASH-HADU ANNA MOHAMMADAN RASUL-ALLAH".
The English translation is:
"I bear witness that there is no deity (none truely to be worshipped) but, Allah, and I bear witness that Mohammad is the messenger of Allah"
In other words, as a Muslim you must be literally convinced that there's only one
Creator for this universe and Mohammad is His Messenger to the point where you can be held a witness about it. The notion of being a witness means that the belief of "Only one creator & Mohammad is his messenger" is a fact that you experienced or witnessed, to the point where you can provide a testimony about it. You are just fooling yourself if you declare the Shahadah but still not convinced about it.
How do we know that there's a creator for this universe in the first place?
The universe (creature) exists, that's a fact, it can't be created by itself, that's a certainty, so there must be a creator for it. Thus, we know that there's a creator because there's a creature (universe).
Was the universe created by one or multiple creators?
The creature (universe) was our tangible evidence that proves there's a creator for this universe. Therefore, to know more about that creator, we need to examine the evidence.
There are different kinds of people, animals, plants, planets, stars, etc.. Is it possible that there's a creator for each type? Seems possible but if you carefully examine all those things around in this universe you will notice they are made of directly or indirectly out of atoms and its derivations. In other words, that indicates that the Creator is one since He's using the same fundamental elements and the same system. If there are multiple creators, then we expect to have different creature and different systems which don't exist.
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