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Surah Al-Fatihah Text and Translation

Sūrat al-Fātiḥah (Arabic: سُورَةُ الْفَاتِحَة‎) is the first chapter (surah) of the Quran. Its seven verses (ayat) are a prayer for the guidance, lordship and mercy of God.

Surah al-Fatihah (The Opening)

There are seven verses in this Surah (chapter) and it is said that this Surah is both ‘makki’ and ‘madani’ ie. it was revealed in both Makkah and Madinah.

A Commentary on the Hamd Surah (part 17)

A gnostic notice Know that for every being of the invisible and visible worlds, and of this world and the Hereafter, there is a beginning and a destination.

A Commentary on the Hamd Surah (part 18)

Know that the blessed Surah al-Fatihah (the Opening), as it contains all the stages of existence, also contains all the stages of conducts and, further, it contains, by way of allusion [isharah], all the objectives of the Qur’an.

A Commentary on the Hamd Surah (part 15)

A faithful awakening

Lessons on Interpretation of the Hamd Surah

There is a class of people who have accomplished this: they have migrated in this way; and attained their goal (although in another sense their migration is continuing), and it had become incumbent upon God to reward them. There are others who have migrated but not yet reached the goal of being “overtaken by death.”‌

Lessons on Interpretation of the Hamd Surah

Last time I discussed the possibility that the expression “In the Name of God,”‌ in every surah that it heads, is syntactically connected to the surah itself, or to the first part of its subject matter.

A Commentary on the Hamd Surah (Last Part)

Some noble narratives related about the merit [fadl] of this blessed Surah

Lessons on Interpretation of the Hamd Surah (part 1)

I take refuge in God from Satan the accursed. In the Name of God, the Lord of Compassionate, the Merciful.

A Commentary on the Hamd Surah (part 16)

An illuminative notice and a gnostic illumination

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