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قراءة كتاب Notes on Islam
تنويه: تعرض هنا نبذة من اول ١٠ صفحات فقط من الكتاب الالكتروني، لقراءة الكتاب كاملا اضغط على الزر “اشتر الآن"
Maulana Rumi outlined it poetically in his famous Masnavi in the thirteenth century, in the same manner as Lord Tennyson did in his Princess in the nineteenth. I desire that you should try to understand it in its modern form. I strongly recommend that you should read an admirable book by Edward Clodd called The Story of Creation11. When I first read it, some years ago, I felt it was as pleasant and interesting as a novel. Its introduction and Part II are quite easy to read. They will give you a very good idea of the great revolution which Darwin and Wallace, Huxley and Spencer have wrought in the thought of our own times.
HE following is a translation of the "Opening Chapter" of our Holy Qur'an. I have analysed it by placing Roman and Arabic numerals, the first indicating verses آيات and the second indicating sub-divisions of verses.
| Opening Chapter. | سورة فاتحة | ||
| In the Name of God Compassionate, the Merciful. |
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم | ||
| I. |
Praise be to God, |
الحمد لله | .I |
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(1) Lord (Nourisher) |
١) رب العا لمين) | ||
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(2) the Compassionate, |
٢) الرحمن الرحيم) | ||
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(3) King of the Day |
٣) مالك يوم الدين) | ||
| II. | .II | ||
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(1) Thee only do we |
١) اياك نعبد) | ||
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(2) and Thee only do |
٢) و مالك يوم الدين) | ||
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(3) Guide us in the |
٣) اهدنا الصراط المستقيم) | ||
| III. | the Path of those | صراط الذين | .III |
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(1) to whom Thou |
١) انعمت عليهم) | ||
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(2) who are not objects |
٢) غير تامغضوب عايهم) | ||
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(3) and who go not |
٣) و لا الضالين) | ||
| Amen12 | آمين |
The whole Sura divides itself into three parts and each part into three divisions thus:—