Surah Al-Fatiha

Sura Al-Fatiha (Arabic: سورة الفاتحة‎), (Sūratul-Fātihah, "The Opening") is the first chapter of the Qur'an. Its seven verses are a prayer for Allah's guidance, and stress Its lordship and mercy. This chapter has an essential role in salaatu allah (prayer of God); Muslims recite the Surah Al-Fatiha at least seventeen times a day, at the start of each unit of prayer.

Muslims believe that the Qur'an is a revelation given in Arabic from God. Translations into other languages are considered to be merely superficial "interpretations" of the meanings and not authentic versions, the word of God, of the Qur'an. In addition the term bismillah herrahmanirahim is actually the first verse of Al-fatiha as often it would be a pre-saying to the surahs.

Arabic: 1.1 بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمـَنِ الرَّحِيم

1:2 الْحَمْدُ للّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِين

1:3 الرَّحمـنِ الرَّحِيم

1:4 مَـالِكِ يَوْمِ الدِّين

1:5 إِيَّاك نَعْبُدُ وإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِين

1:6 اهدِنَــــا الصِّرَاطَ المُستَقِيمَ

1:7 صِرَاطَ الَّذِينَ أَنعَمتَ عَلَيهِمْ غَيرِ المَغضُوبِ عَلَيهِمْ وَلاَ الضَّالِّين

Transliteration:

Al-Fatiha | 7 verses | The Opening | سورة الفاتحة Sura #1 | Makkah

Bismillāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm

Al ḥamdu lillāhi rabbi l-'ālamīn

Ar raḥmāni r-raḥīm

Māliki yawmi d-dīn

Iyyāka na'budu wa iyyāka nasta'īn

Ihdinā ṣ-ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm

Ṣirāṭ al-laḏīna an'amta 'alayhim ġayril maġḍūbi 'alayhim walāḍ ḍāllīn

Translation: ^{[Qur'an 1:1]}.

In the name of God, the most beneficent, the most merciful

All appreciation, gratefulness and thankfulness are to Allah alone, lord of the worlds

The most beneficent, the most merciful

The possessor of the day of recompense (i.e., on the last day of judgment)

You we worship, and you we seek help

Direct all of us to the straight path (i.e., to the way of Islam)

The way of those on whom you have bestowed your grace, not the way of those who have earned your anger, nor of those who have lost their way and are astray