A Quranic Journal A Quranic Journal: Surah al-Fatiha ayah 7

Al-Muhajabah's Islamic Blogs Home
« Surah al-Fatiha ayah 6 | A Quranic Journal archives | The Obligation for the Muslim to Learn Surah al-Fatiha »
Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0 in, 0 out) | 

Email this link | Print this verse | RDF

Search Options
Add this entry to your hotlist (View your hotlist)

Surah al-Fatiha ayah 7

Date: May 27, 2002 | 15 Rabi al-Awwal 1423 Hijriah
Arabic text of ayah

Sirat alladhina an'amta alayhim ghayr al-maghdubi alayhim wa ad-dallin

The path of those whom You have favored, not those Your wrath is upon and not those who go astray

The following are excerpts of commentary on this ayah, based on Tafsir Ibn Kathir and other sources:

After the servant has requested for guidance to the Straight Path, Allaah then proceeds to clarify further what this Straight Path is. Al-Ghadab linguistically means anger, it is the opposite of pleasure (ridaa) and one of the Attributes of Allaah. Maghdoob refer to the objects of Anger.

Dalaal linguistically means to divert from the intended goal or to diverge from the true path and it is the opposite of guidance. It is also said "the milk dalla in the water" when it is mixed such that it disappears.

At-Tirmidhee reports from Adee bin Haatim who said,

I asked the Messenger of Allaah (SAW) about Allaah's saying about, "those who have earned [Your] Anger", and He said, "it refers to the Jews." I then asked about, "those who have gone astray" and he said, "the Christians are those who have gone astray." [Reported by at-Tirmidhee and Ahmad and it is saheeh]

The Jews and the Christians even though both of them are misguided and both of them have Allaah's Anger on them - the Anger is specified to the Jews, even though the Christians share this with them, because the Jews knew the truth and rejected it and deliberately came with falsehood. Therefore the Anger of Allaah being upon them was the description most befitting them. The Christians were ignorant, not knowing the truth, so misguidance was the description most befitting them.
Ed. note: According to my understanding, the above refers to Jews and Christians who have learned the essentials of Islam and chosen to reject it, not to all Jews and Christians. People will not be called to account for what they are not aware of. And Allah SWT knows best
~ Posted by Al-Muhajabah, a student of the Quran, at 01:49 PM

Comments

No comments yet.

All comments are copyright their authors

RSS feed of comments on this entry

Finished reading and posting comments? Return to A Quranic Journal

Trackbacks

What is trackback?
You Pinged Me

Here's who's pinging me:

(no pings yet)


Further reading

Recent entries

The following is a list of the ten most recent entries in A Quranic Journal as of Mar 16, 2006:

View a list of all entries in A Quranic Journal

Related entries

Here are other ayat from the same surah:



For more resources on the Quran, visit my Quran Page.




Search options

     

For external resources on the topic of this entry, you can run a search for its title surah al-fatiha ayah 7 (Google, DayPop, Feedster) or keyword(s) fatiha (Google, DayPop, Feedster). DayPop is a search engine similar to Google that focuses on searching news sources and blogs. Feedster searches blogs via RSS feeds.