Grade One Islamic Studies Worksheet 7.2 Tafseer Surah Al-Fatihah (Part 2)
The Messenger of Allah told us that “Allah said: I have divided prayer between Myself and My slave into two halves, and My slave shall have what he has asked for. When the slave says:
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Grade One Islamic Studies Worksheet 7.2 Tafseer Surah Al-Fatihah (Part 2)
(The Only Owner (and the Only Ruling Judge) of the Day of Recompense (i.e. the Day of Resurrection)), Allah says: My slave has glorified Me - and on one occasion He said: My slave has submitted to My power. And when he says:
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(Guide us to the Straight Way. The way of those on whom You have bestowed Your
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Grade One Islamic Studies Worksheet 7.2 Tafseer Surah Al-Fatihah (Part 2)
Grace, not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger, nor of those who went astray), He says: This is for My slave, and My slave shall have what he has asked for.” 1 When we recite Surah Al-Fatihah we ask Allah to guide us to the Straight Way, the way of those upon whom He has bestowed His Grace. Who are these people that Allah has bestowed His Grace upon? Allah tells us more about these people in an ayah in Surah Nisa’ “…those on whom Allah has bestowed His grace, the Prophets, the Siddiqin (the truly faithful), the martyrs, and the righteous….” (AlNisa’ 4:69) In Surah Al-Fatihah we also ask Allah not to be upon the way of those whom Allah is angry with nor of those who went astray. Who are these people? One of the companions of the Messenger of Allah , Adee bin Hatim once asked this question: “I asked the Messenger of Allah about Allah’s saying about, ‘those who have earned 1
Saheeh Muslim.
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Grade One Islamic Studies Worksheet 7.2 Tafseer Surah Al-Fatihah (Part 2)
[Your] Anger’, and He said, ‘it refers to the Jews.’ I then asked about, ‘those who have gone astray’ and he said, ‘the Christians are those who have gone astray.’2
1.
The Messenger of Allah
told us that Allah
said that He “… divided prayer between Myself and My slave into _____ __________, and My slave shall have what he has asked for. 2.
Those on whom Allah has bestowed His
grace are the Prophets, the Siddiqin (the truly faithful), the martyrs, and the ________________ . 3.
Who are those who have earned Allah’s
Anger? The _________ . 4. Who are those who went astray? The ______________. 2
Tirmidhi and Ahmad
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