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      Al-Fatihah (Arabic: الفَاتِحَة‎‎)
      Sura Al-Fatiha word by word analysis
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      Al-Fatihah (Arabic: الفَاتِحَة‎‎)

       
      Verse Text Transliteration Translation
      1.1. بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ BismiALLAHi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm In the Name of ALLAH, the Beneficent, the Especially Merciful.
      1.2. ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ Al ḥamdu LILLAi rabbi l-’ālamīn [All] praise is [due] to GOD, LORD of the Worlds
      1.3. ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Ar Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm The Beneficent, the Especially Merciful.
      1.4. مَالِكِ يَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ Māliki yawmi d-dīn Sovereign of the Day of Recompense.
      1.5. إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ Iyyāka na’budu wa iyyāka nasta’īn It is You we worship and You we ask for help.
      1.6. ٱهْدِنَا الصِّرَاطَ ٱلْمُسْتَقِيمَ Ihdinā ṣ-ṣirāṭ al-Mustaqīm Show us to the straight Path
      1.7. صِرَاطَ ٱلَّذِينَ أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَيْرِ ٱلْمَغْضُوبِ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا ٱلضَّآلِّين Ṣirāṭ al-laḏīna an’amta ‘alayhim ġayril maġḍūbi ‘alayhim walāḍ ḍāllīn The Path of those whom Thou hast favoured. Not [the Path] of those who earn Thine anger nor of those who go astray. [Amin] The word “Amin” [“Amen“, “Verily”] is not written in Quran, but is usually pronounced at the end of the prayer.

       

      Al-Fatiha the fist Sura in Quran

      Sūrat al-Fātiḥah (Arabic: سُّورَةُ الفَاتِحَة‎‎) is the first chapter (surah) of the Quran. Its seven verses (ayat) are a prayer for the guidance, lordship and mercy of GOD [ALLAH in Arabic]. This chapter has an essential role in Islamic prayer (salāt). The primary literal meaning of the expression “al-Fātiḥah” is “The Opener,” which could refer to this Surah being “the opener of the Book” (Fātiḥat al-kitāb), to its being the first Surah recited in full in every prayer cycle (rakʿah), or to the manner in which it serves as an opening for many functions in everyday Islamic life. Some Muslims interpret it as a reference to an implied ability of the Surah to open a person to faith in GOD.

      Al-Fātiḥah is often believed to be a synthesis of the Quran. It in itself is a prayer at the very beginning of the Quran, which acts as a preface of the Quran and implies that the book is for a person who is a seeker of truth—a reader who is asking a deity who is the only one worthy of all praise (and is the creator, owner, sustainer of the worlds etc.) to guide him to a straight path. It can be said to “encapsulate all of the metaphysical and eschatological realities of which human beings must remain conscious.”

      Sura Al-Fatiha word by word analysis

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      1-3: These verses “open” by alluding to the Unity and “royalty” of the Godhead.
      His splendor and Mercy are eternal, love is the Essence of GOD, and remembering the description of the Lord of the Worlds (of the Universe) succeeds in dispelling the pain of the believers.
      This World can be saved only through His Name, and the eternal Hereafter only through His forgiveness.
      Were it not for the message and name of GOD on this earth the home of every servant would be desolate, and were it not for His Mercy and generosity in the Hereafter, the work of His servants would be unbearable and useless.
      Were it not for the vision that illumines His heart in Heaven, nothing would make a poor human body happy.

      BISMILLAH: To begin a good deed with in the name of GOD (ALLAH in Arabic) corresponds to respect and remember the Creator wishing for the success of the work. It also means that the supplicant undertakes the work in the Name and on behalf of GOD to serve the good in the work and to achieve its purpose. In other words, he dedicates his life to ALLAH and employs his self-interest oriented and global activity in the service of the good. He also admits his powerlessness and relies on the conviction that everything can bear fruit only if the Lord wills it (inshaALLAH) and no one else. Invoking GOD in the Name of His benevolence and mercy, the believer prays for His help to achieve success in his endeavor.
      It is a certainty of the believers that nothing exists or has any effect outside the course of GOD’s Will, which governs all activity, but does not determine the desires and methods of any created being, thus leaving everyone free will. Tradition reports that the Holy Prophet Mohammed made it known that anything done without invoking divine grace by reciting bismillah is not approved by GOD.
      Anyone can start any work without invoking GOD with the bismillah, and it will also be performed if the divine will allows it, however, any way of remembering one’s belonging to the Creator turns away from mistakes.
      In beginning a work in the Name of GOD, the reciter demonstrates aspects of fundamental importance:

      1. Recognition of the Supreme Being as his Lord and Father
      2. Confession of his own impotence as a simple man without Knowledge of GOD
      3. Belief in GOD as omnipresent and omnipotent
      4. Trust in the Supreme Being, seeking His pleasure and mercy

      AL HAMDU: Alhamdu means that “all” praise, thanks, gratitude, must be directed exclusively to GOD, not to anyone else, from the beginning of the Universe until its end, but not out of compulsion, but because the Creator alone deserves to be praised. Not simply for His satisfaction but primarily, for all the blessings and gifts made available to man in his existence. Acknowledge the favors and do not turn your back on Grace.
      GOD is love in its fullness and perfection, He does not need to be praised, but in a prayer, He is praised so that the praying person will love and cherish the attributes that are praised, because we are called to imitate GOD.
      The omniscient Lord is fully aware of the needs and desires of all His creatures more than they themselves know. He bestows His favors and gifts without receiving petitions from them, yet in order to educate, train, and discipline mankind, prayer, in which He is praised, is necessary, so that man remains attached to the merciful creator, while enjoying the divine gifts, aware of the absolute sovereignty of the Lord of gifts and grace.

      “Owner of the Day of Judgment”: This alludes to the permanence of the kingship of Divine Unity and the subsistence of the all-encompassingness of GOD. The Day of Judgment, the Last Day, in which every king and kingdom will end and disappear, leaving room only for the kingship of the Creator, forever. In the existing worlds nothing and no one is outside of His kingship and government, He is the Lord of the worlds and tomorrow the master of the Day of Judgment.
      It has been said that the chastisement is near and the reckoning and the reward.

      “It is You we worship and You we ask for help”: This alludes to two of the great pillars of religion, around which the journey of those with faith revolves.
      The first is adorning the Soul through worship and self-purification (self-improvement). It is about keeping oneself adorned with an adoration that has no eye service and an obedience that has no hypocrisy.
      The other is purifying the Soul from associating others with GOD and paying attention to power and strength. It is about purifying one’s Soul, keeping it clean from evil, lies, associationism and corruption, and not depending on one’s own power and strength.

      “Lead us in the straight path”: This is the source of prayer and the spinal cord of obedience. It is the supplication, request and entreaty of the faithful, the search for righteousness and firmness in faith. It means, “Lead us on this path, make us travel on it and make us steadfast in it.”

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