THE OPENING AL-FĀTIḤAH ( الفاتحة )

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بِسمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحمٰنِ الرَّحيمِ
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bi-smi llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīmi
TRANSLATION

In the Name of Allah,
the All-beneficent, the All-merciful.
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الحَمدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ العالَمينَ
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al-ḥamdu li-llāhi rabbi l-ʿālamīna
TRANSLATION

All praise belongs to Allah,1
Lord of all the worlds,
In muslim parlance the phrase al-ḥamdu lillāh also signifies ‘thanks to Allah.’
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الرَّحمٰنِ الرَّحيمِ
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ar-raḥmāni r-raḥīmi
TRANSLATION

the All-beneficent, the All-merciful,
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مالِكِ يَومِ الدّينِ
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māliki yawmi d-dīni
TRANSLATION

Master1 of the Day of Retribution.
This is in accordance with the reading mālik yawm al-dīn, adopted by ʿĀṣim, al-Kisāʾī, Yaʿqūb al-Ḥaḍramī, and Khalaf. Other authorities of qirāʾah (the art of recitation of the Qurʾān) have read ‘malik yawm al-dīn,’ meaning ‘Sovereign of the Day of Retribution’ (see Muʿjam al-Qirāʾāt al-Qurʾāniyyah). Traditions ascribe both readings to Imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq (ʿa). See al-Qummī, al-ʿAyyāshī, Tafsīr al-Imām al-ʿAskarī.
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إِيّاكَ نَعبُدُ وَإِيّاكَ نَستَعينُ
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ʾiyyāka naʿbudu wa-ʾiyyāka nastaʿīnu
TRANSLATION

You [alone] do we worship,
and to You [alone] do we turn for help.
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اهدِنَا الصِّراطَ المُستَقيمَ
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ihdinā ṣ-ṣirāṭa l-mustaqīma
TRANSLATION

Guide us on the straight path,
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صِراطَ الَّذينَ أَنعَمتَ عَلَيهِم غَيرِ المَغضوبِ عَلَيهِم وَلَا الضّالّينَ
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ṣirāṭa lladhīna ʾanʿamta ʿalayhim ghayri l-maghḍūbi ʿalayhim wa-lā ḍ-ḍāllīna
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the path of those whom You have blessed1
—such as2 have not incurred Your wrath,3
nor are astray.4

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