Chapter 1
Chapter 1 of the holy Quran with full Arabic text and English translation (Surah Al-Fateha – سُوْرَةُ الفَاتِحَةِ – The Opening)
| Part 1 / Chapter 1 | Verse | Chapter 1 / سُوْرَةُ الفَاتِحَةِ |
| In the name of Allah (SWT), Most Compassionate, Eternally Merciful | 1 | بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَانِ الرَّحِيْمِ |
| Every form of praise and thanks belongs to Allah (SWT), Nurturer of all that exists | 2 | الحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ العَالَمِيْنَ |
| Most Compassionate, Eternally Merciful | 3 | الرَّحْمَانِ الرَّحِيْمِ |
| Owner of the day of recompense/requital/judgement/reckoning | 4 | مَالِكِ يَوْمِ الدِّيْنِ |
| Only You we worship and only You we ask for help | 5 | إِيَّكَ نَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّكَ نَسْتَعِيْنُ |
| Guide us to the straight path | 6 | اهْدِنَا الصِّرَاطَ المُسْتَقِيْمَ |
| The path of those whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not of those who have earned Your Anger | صِرَاطَ الَّذِيْنَ أَنْعَمَتَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَيْرِ المَغْضُوْبِ عَلَيْهِمْ | |
| nor of those who are astray | 7 | وَلَا الضَّالِّيْنَ |
Aayat 1-7
The majority of scholars are of the opinion that this surah was revealed in Mecca, one among the first Surahs of the Qur’an to be revealed.
Abu ‘Uthman Sa’id ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Zahid informed us> his grandfather>Abu ‘Amr al-Hiri> Ibrahim ibn al-Harith and ‘Ali ibn Sahl ibn al-Mughirah who said: Yahya ibn Abi Bukayr informed us> Isra’il> Abu Ishaq> Abu Maysarah [‘Amr ibn Shurahbil] who said:
“The Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him and give him peace, whenever he went out, used to hear someone calling him ‘O Muhammad!’ And whenever he heard this, he used to flee.
Waraqah ibn Nawfal advised the Prophet to remain in his place when the caller calls him so that he hears what he has to tell him.
And so when he went out, he heard the calling: ‘O Muhammad!’
He said: ‘Here I am! At your service!’
The caller said: ‘Say: I bear witness that there is no god but Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah’.
Then he said: ‘Say (Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Owner of the Day of Judgement…)’ and he read until the end of the Opening of the Book”.
This is also the opinion of ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib.