Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Some of the names of Surah al-Faatihah:

بسم الله والحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله ، وبعد

1. al-Faatihat-ul-Kitaab (الفاتحة الكتاب): meaning: the opening chapter of the Book and it is the first Surah of the Qur’aan.

2. Al-Sab` al-Mathaanee (السبع المثاني): meaning: the seven repeatedly recited Aayaat. [Surah al-Hijr (15): 87] As it is recited repeatedly in every Rak`ah (unit) of the Salaah.

3. Umm al-Quraan (أم القرآن) and Umm al-Kitaab (أم الكتاب): meaning: Mother of the Qur’aan and Mother of the Book. “Umm al-Shayy” (mother of a thing) means: The foundation or the origin of a thing to which it returns. [Example: the proverb in English: "Necessity is the mother of invention"]. The whole of the Qur’aan, in its meaning, returns to what is implied in this Surah.

4. Al-Salaah (الصلاة): meaning: the Prayer. As has been mentioned in the Hadeeth Qudsee that Allaah تعالى said: {I have divided the Salaah into two halves between Me and My slave} [Saheeh Muslim]. The Salaah hear meaning Surah al-Faatihah.

5. Al-Kaafiyah (الكافية): meaning: The sufficient.

6. Al-Ruqyah (الرقية): meaning: Incantation (treatment for poison and evil eye etc.). In the narration in which it is mentioned that the chief of a tribe was stung by a scorpion and the Companion treated him by reciting Surah al-Faatihah and took sheep as payment for doing the Ruqyah. When the Prophet was informed about it, he said: How did he come to know that it (Al-Faatihah) is Ruqyah (i.e. could be used for treatment)? [Saheehain]


[Abridged from the Sharh of Shaikh al-Fawzaan of the book: بعض فوائد سورة الفاتحة]

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