The Lord's Prayer -- Part I
Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 3:49PM Many commentators on the Quran have gone into detail about the meanings of the seven verses of The Opening, and I don’t want to repeat here what you can find in most commentaries or Quranic exegeses. For example, I don’t want to expound upon the hadith describing how The Opening is an interactive prayer between the worshiper and God (you can read that hadith here (see Number 0775 of Book 4)), or to cite sources supporting the notion that The Opening is required to be recited in every physical prayer. Rather, I would like first to comment briefly on the individual ayahs that make up the surah and then share some thoughts on The Opening’s crescendo and its ultimate message. This should take two or three posts to get through, so we might as well just dive in.