LESSON # 9 HOLY QUR’AAN
F A A T I H A H – 1
STRAIGHT PATH
Verse – 5 of 7, section -1
‘Ihdinas-Siraatal-Musta-qiim
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Show us the Straight Path
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Lesson
We admit that
The GOD (ALLAH) is our CREATOR, our MASTER, our BENEFICENT and promise that
we shall obey the orders of ALLAH and do worship only for ALLAH. We shall ask
help only from HIM. Now we want to get guidance from our LORD so that we may
not err erroneously which may cause HIS anger. So we need to walk on that
path, on which we may get HIS happiness, pleasure and which may take us
towards HIM.
‘Ihdi – show,
instruct, admonish. There are many things, included in it. For instance-to
show path, to carry on the straight path, to convey on the destination. So it
is the benediction that which the way, we do not know, show us that, so that
we may achieve our goal and not to remain behind the destination.
We can not
discover the path with our knowledge and wisdom. Because our knowledge is
limited and our sense is a conch and defective. So we request only HIM
(ALLAH) to show us the path as per HIS theology, on which there is no
crookedness, no ups and downs, no fear of stumbling. There may be complete
rules and regulations of the life, each corner and section of life may have
accomplished base for guidance.
We beg for
these aggregation benedictions so that relationship of each individual may
remain with the nation personally. Whenever we offer prayers, we ask for
help, we beg to show the right path to us, we do aggregate all these things.
Teachings like this, to live as a unity, can not be found anywhere except
Islam.
How this
benediction is perfect, “O ALLAH! Show us the straight path”. There is no time whenever the mankind does not need to know about the straight path and
correct manners. Eating, drinking, writing, reading, buying, selling, doing
the jobs to establish the government/state, decision making on the law-suits,
it means that there is none problem for that a person does not have to get
sound guidance. So ALLAH ALMIGHTY has fixed these benedictions to be recited in
all prayers. So that every person may beg for getting guidance and power to
act.
·1 Each religion has instructed its followers to beg
for blessings, some people request for the bread, some ask for power, some
beg for light of heart, some pray to be
forgotten their sins. Our LORD taught us a perfect benediction in which we
have been guided for every field of life.
Transliteration in Roman Script, English Translation
by Marmaduke Pickthall and Paraphrase collected from Dars e Qur’aan published
By Idara Islah wa Tableegh,
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