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1. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
2. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds,
3. the Beneficent, the Merciful,
4. Master of the Day of Judgement.
5. Thee (alone) we worship; Thee (alone) we ask for help.
6. Show us the straight path,
7. the path of those whom Thou hast favoured; not the (path) of those who earn Thine anger nor of those who go astray. ( Pickthall translation).

It is traditionally followed by Amin.

1 History and Readings

According to Ibn Abbas and others, this is a Makkan surah; according to Abu Hurairah and others, it is a Madinan surah. The former view is more widely accepted. Some say it was the first complete surah to be revealed[1], coming after the revelation of the beginnings of surat Iqra and of surat al-Muddaththir .

The two main qira'at (readings) of the Qur'an, Warsh and Hafs , differ on the precise vocalization of the first word of ayah 4 (ملك mlk), making it either maliki "king" (Warsh, from Nafi' , and Ibn Kathir, Ibn Amir , Abu 'Amr , and Hamza) or maaliki "owner, master" (Hafs, from Asim , and al-Kisa'i ). Both are considered valid in Islam, since either title is seen as equally applicable to Allah.

The initial basmalaBasmala is the first verse in the Qur'an. It is usually integrated with the first soorah, but, according to the view adopted by Al-Tabri, it is independent. ("In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful") is counted as a verse of this surah, although in other suras at whose beginning it occurs it is not counted by some.

2 Alternate names

This surah is described in various HadithThe Hadith (, pl. Ahadith is a body of laws, legends and stories about Muhammad's way of life, (Arabic, Sunnah which includes his biography or the sira) and the sayings themselves where he elaborated on his choices or offered advice; many parts of the Had as "the mother of the Book" (Umm al-Kitab) and "the mother of the Qur'an" (Umm al-Qur'an), and said to be the seven verses alluded to in Al-Hijr (15:)87:

"We have given thee seven of the oft-repeated (verses) and the great Qur'an."

3 Statistics

This sura contains 7 verses, 292 9 29 twenty-nine is the natural number following 28 and preceding 30. Cardinal twenty-nine Ordinaltwenty-ninth Factorization prime Roman numeralXXIX Binary11101 Hexadecimal1D In mathematics It is the tenth prime number, and also a primorial prime, the n words and 139 letters (or 25 and 120, minus the basmala), although Ibn Kathir says "The scholars say that Al-Fatihah consists of twenty-five2 5 2 5 25 twenty-five is the natural number following 24 and preceding 26. Cardinal twenty-five Ordinaltwenty-fifth Factorization Roman numeralXXV Binary11001 Hexadecimal19 In mathematics It is a square number, being 52 5 × 5, and it is also the sum of t words, and that it contains one hundred and thirteen letters." It falls in the first hizb , and hence the first juz' . It is the first sura of the Qur'an.