Al Faatiha Power Point

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1) Unlike anything else that has been revealed

2) Summary of Islam

3) Summary of Quran



(Both) All Praise and Thanks belongs toAllah

IMPACTS: Outlook of believer changes drastically: As

believers we say everything Allah Ta’la does,whether we understand the reason or wisdomor not we are grateful and praise Allah. Between sabr and Shukr

Allah’s wisdom is behind everything. Taste bad but is good for you. Seen vs. Unseen world

People complain but they do not have the fulpicture

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All Praise and Thanks belongs toAllah

IMPACTS: Praise and thanks belongs to Allah by

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All praise and thanks belongs to Allah alldid not reveal “We praise and thank Allah”

Whether we praise and thank Allah ismutual exclusive, or is not related to Allahpraise and thanks belongs to Allah. Thisfact is conveyed by Allah in the Quran in63:1:



All Praise and Thanks belongs toAllah

IMPACTS:

Allah did not reveal, Al-hum-dul-lahvs. Al-hum-du-Al-Khaaliq (insert AllahTa’la’s Greatness PP)

Proper way to Call on Allah



Fills the scales

Fills what is between the heavens and earth

Is a sadaqah

Part of the dearest statements to Allah

Allah is please who states Alhumdulilah at thetaking of food and water.



Brothers and sisters Alhumdulilah at minimummeans that all the praise and thanks belong toAllah. means as believers we say everything

Allah Ta’la does, whether we understand thereason, wisdom, cause and effect of matters andevents in life or not. As believers we are always ofthe position of being grateful and praise Allah.

In other words we accept our mortality and limitsby accepting Allah’s limitless power, knowledge,wisdom, and all the other attributes that arebefitting to Allah.



Alhumdulilah even in time of hardship.

Suffering/Hardship occurs to teach us we mustadhere to Allah’s natural and moral laws.

Reason for suffering/hardship to: Test our faith in Allah which includes our commitment to

human values and charity

Test our faith in Allah

Believers face the sufferings with prayers,repentance and good deeds. The faithless face thesufferings with doubts and confusions. Theyblame Allah or make arguments against Him.



Alhumdulilah is Allah’s introduction to him,and after this we Allah Ta’la tells us that He isMaster of everything exists.

When Allah is the Master of everything thenwe are the slaves of Allah.



Definition of Freedom in Islaam: That onlywhen we recognize, know our Creator and wesubmit to His will do we truly become free.

Why is this only true meaning of freedom?Because who best know how we should livethan the one who Created us.



Definition of Freedom in Islaam: And if we donot become slaves to Allah, than we becomeslaves to everything else. Slaves to our desires,

slaves to our whims,

slaves to each other,

slaves to manmade systems,

slaves to power, slaves to money,

slaves to fame,

Slaves to how the people think of us, etc, etc,etc.



Definition of Freedom in Islaam: Example ofMariam AS.




Grandmother of Esa AS is saying, “Oh mylord, emancipate, liberated, free the child thatis in my womb from all slavery, by making this child your slave.”




And surely her duaa’ got accepted as the Our

Beloved RasullahIn a hadith that also tells of the success of Mariamand Aasiiaa, Anas reports that the Messenger ofAllaah, salla Allaahu alaihi wa sallam, said: 'The best

women of human-kind are four: Mariam daughter of`Imraan, Assiya wife of Pharaoh, Khadija daughter ofKhu-way-lid , and Fatima the daughter of theMuhammad SAW.' [Bukhari and Muslim]



refers to the Mercy of Allah, at the present,especially, extremely, merciful at the moment.

And this only applies to Allah. An exampleyou could say a guy is merciful, but that doesnot necessarily mean the guy is merciful at thecurrent moment.

Refers to the especially merciful. MeaningAllah’s mercy in past and the future.



Abu Hurairah reported Allah's Messenger (SAW)as saying: There are one hundred (parts of) mercy

for Allah and He has sent down out of these onepart of mercy upon the jinn and human beings andthe insects and it is because of this (one part) thatthey love one another, show kindness to one

another and even the beast treats its young onewith affection, and Allah has reserved ninety-nineparts of mercy with which He would treat Hisslaves on the Day of Resurrection. (Sahih Muslim)



Master can do what He pleases when slavedisobeys - Yes

Allah our Master lets it slide time and timewhen we disobey Allah’s moral/physical laws.

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Most unjust act is shirk.



We need to fear the justice of Allah, because ifAllah’s justice begins on us the there is no

difference between that justice and AllahTa’la’s punishment. Of course the justice isdone for a valid cause, so when Allah’s justicebegins then His mercy ends.



Teaches that it is impossible to believe Allahand not believe in the afterlife.

Believing in Allah or God goes hand in handwith believing in the Day of Judgment.



The reason is if this if one believes in theCreator, Allah, then we have to believe He is

perfect in every way, He is flawless, He isimmaculate, He is impeccable. If one gives anyflaws to God then He is no longer God.











All will reap what they sow

Example of imperfect justice of this world



Justice System of this world is imperfect



So now I have realized that all the praise and thanksbelongs to the Originator of all that exists Allah ,this makes Allah the Master of all that exists, andtherefore naturally I am His slave, and this Master isthe exceedingly merciful, the especially merciful,and that this perfect Master has put us on this earthto be tested and the injustices that occur in thisworld that are part of the test have to balance outaccording to the Justice of this Master, therefore TheMaster has ordained a day where the balance sheetsare balanced and perfect justice is served.



So now I am going to willing give myself toHim by declaring, , “You alone do Weworship”, and we realize that we need the

Masters helps, so we learn to we declare “YouAlone do we seek help from”

So we willingly give ourselves to the Master,and beseech, and beg His help.



Balance between the competing forces.

Now in addition to establishing perfect justicebetween the needs of the competing forces man vs.women, labor vs. capital, Governments vs. people,

body versus soul we also need to balance. So everyone from secularists, to the Buddhist, to

the Christians all try to establish a balance andthey end up being in imbalanced.

So who can bring the balance between thecompeting forces, again it is the One who created,designed, and engineered these competing forces.That is Allah Ta’la so we are taught by this



Thus We have made you (true Muslims), a just,

middle nation, that you be witnesses overmankind and the Messenger (Muhammad SAW)be a witness over you.



So Again the only true balance can come fromAllah Ta’la.

So we seek the hidah or guidance of Allah. Andthis is a complete guidance. Guidance between

halal and haram, guidance in ethics, guidancein morality, guidance in thought, guidance infood, guidance in drink, guidance in attitude,in short guidance in every sense of the word.







When you are thirsty, how do you ask someone forwater. Do you say, “Hand me some water”.

Now imagine you come from hours of being lost inthe desert, you are exhausted, you are fatigued,

you have a pounding headache from heat strokeand you find someone with water. How wouldyou ask them? You would ask more desperately,more empathetically, more from the heart, withmore need, with more urgency – You would beg.

Now we ask Allah Ta’la for hidah a least 17 times aday. Do we ask Him like we really mean it, withdesperation, with need, with urgency with thirst? Iwill leave you to answer for yourself and meanswer for myself.



Al faathiha starts with knowledge of knowing Allah: Knowledge that all praise and thanks is due to Allah – who

the Creator, Maker of Allah that exists. Knowledge that Allah is the master of Allah that exists which naturally makes us slaves of this Praise worthy,

thank worthy, Master. Knowledge that Allah is the exceeding Merciful, the

especially Merciful. Knowledge that Allah is the Master, Owner, and King of the

day of Judgment,

The second part of the Surat al-Faatiha quickly transfersfrom the subject of knowledge or belief to action or practice:Action in worshiping Allah Alone.

Seeking only His help. Seeking only his complete, just, balanced guidance,



Now all of Islam is like in the Faatiha knowledgeand action:

You have to have the correct knowledge, whichyou must follow by the correct action, that is the

blessed or correct path so we say after, as Allahrevealed: Guide us to the path of those who weresuccessful,

So we beseech, seek, entreat and beg Allah Ta’laguide us to the path of Adam, Noah, Ibraheem,Moses, Esa, and Muhammad SAW. Who are thetrue heroes, role models, of successful people ofhistory.



Now the incorrect paths are two extremes. Whathappens sometimes is that people have knowledgebut that do not follow it with action. Andsometimes people have a lot of action but it is notbased on the correct knowledge.

Example is the Jews who had the correctknowledge but they did not follow it up with the

correct action. The Christians have lots of actions, for example

monks, and not marrying women, or Catholicsisters that give their whole lives, but it is action

not based on the correct knowledge.



In Al-Faatiha Allah teaches us to seekprotections against having the knowledgewithout action which earns the anger or rage

of Allah, and these are Al-ma-gh-doob , thepeople who earn the rage or anger.

Also in Al Faatiha Allah teaches us to seekprotection against having action that is not

based on the correct knowledge or Ad-daaleenthe people who are lost.



So in Al-Faatiha we seek Allah’s perfect, complete,balanced guidance, and blessing by saying,

Also in Al-Faathiha we seek Allah’s protectionagainst the imbalance, knowledge with no action,

and action without correct knowledge by saying,



A simple example to drive home the point of seeking protection ofAllah from these two incorrect paths the scholars give. Let us saysomeone asks you for direction to your house. So you draw up a mapand hand them the map, and the person drives towards your houseand decides to just throw away the map and not use it. So that wouldan act of al magh-doob. Someone who had the knowledge and

decides to not use it.The other incorrect path is would be like someone who tries to get toyour house but does not have a map, does not have a GPS, does nothave a phone to call, does not bother to think about asking fordirections, so they drivel around aimlessly, so they have a lot of actionin driving around to find your house but they never find it becausetheir action is based on ignorance so these are the ad-daa-leen .So in conclusion Al-Faatiha is a summary, a nutshell of the Qurran,and indeed Islaam. The scholars say whoever understands Al-Faatihahas understood the essense of the Qurran and Islaam.

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