Surah 1 · 7 ayat

الفاتحة

The Opening

Arabic text and reviewed renderings

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1:1

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

Research rendering: In the name of God, the Nurturer, the Merciful.

1:2

ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ

Research rendering: Praises are for God, Sustainer of reasoning beings.

1:3

ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

Research rendering: The Nurturer, the Merciful.

1:4

مَٰلِكِ يَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ

Research rendering: Sovereign of the Day of Accountability.

1:5

إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ

Research rendering: You we serve, and You we seek for support.

1:6

ٱهْدِنَا ٱلصِّرَٰطَ ٱلْمُسْتَقِيمَ

Research rendering: Guide us to the steady course.

1:7

صِرَٰطَ ٱلَّذِينَ أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَيْرِ ٱلْمَغْضُوبِ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا ٱلضَّآلِّينَ

Research rendering: The course of those You favoured upon them, other than those angered upon them, and not the straying.