The Opening
The Opening الفاتحة
بسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
In The Name of God, The Vastly Merciful, The Merciful
الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ
The praise belongs to God, The Lord of The Worlds.
الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
The Vastly Merciful, The Merciful
مَلِكِ يَوْمِ الدِّينِ
King of The Day of Reckoning.
إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ
You we worship and you we seek aid.
اهْدِنَا الصِّرَاطَ الْمُسْتَقِيمَ
Guide us to The Straight Path.
صِرَاطَ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَيْرِ الْمَغْضُوبِ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا الضَّالِّينَ
The Path of whom you have favoured upon them, other than those whom anger is upon them and the astray.
The Qur’ān, Al-Fātiḥah