Sunday, June 3, 2007

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Hot Air » Blog Archive » Blogging the Qur’an: Sura 1, “The Opening”:

"The Fatiha (Opening) is the first sura (chapter) of the Qur’an and most
common prayer of Islam. If you’re a pious Muslim who prays the five requisite
daily prayers of Islam, you will recite the Fatiha seventeen times in the course
of those prayers. According to an Islamic tradition, the Muslim prophet Muhammad
said that the Fatiha surpassed anything revealed by Allah (“the God” in Arabic,
and the word for God used by Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews, as well as
Muslims) in the Torah, the Gospel, or the rest of the Qur’an. And indeed, it
efficiently and eloquently encapsulates many of the principal themes of the
Qur’an and Islam in general: Allah as the “Lord of the Worlds,” who alone is to
be worshiped and asked for help, the merciful judge of every soul on the Last
Day."


This is just the beginning, the rest of the post that you should read if you can talks about how the passage is understood. I really think that this is an important project, that if we are to live in this world peacefully we need to learn to understand each other.

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