Benefits from Sūrat al-Fātiḥah, a lesson by Ustādh Abu Rayhaanah Yahya (hafidhahullāh), from the words of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh) and Shaykh Ibn ʿUthaymīn (raḥimahullāh)
• Al-Fātiḥah is the greatest sūrah in the Qurʾān: the ḥadīth "I will teach you the greatest sūrah in the Qurʾān before I leave the masjid"
• Reciting al-Fātiḥah at gatherings, sermons and occasions without evidence is an innovation; acts of worship rest on proof
• The three categories of Tawḥīd in the sūrah: Rubūbiyyah, al-Asmāʾ waṣ-Ṣifāt, and worship in "You alone we worship"
• There is no prayer without al-Fātiḥah, and what the one unable to recite it says instead
• The three positions on the one praying behind the imām, and why reciting it in the quiet prayers and listening in the loud prayers is the most balanced
• Its many names (Umm al-Qurʾān, ar-Ruqyah, as-Sabʿ al-Mathānī, aṣ-Ṣalāh), and that many names indicate the nobility of what is named
• The Companion who recited it as ruqyah over the chief stung by a scorpion, and a warning about today's paid ruqyah centres
• It is seven āyāt, and the stronger view that the first āyah is "al-ḥamdu lillāhi Rabbil-ʿālamīn"
• The guidance of direction and the guidance of tawfīq, which belongs to Allāh alone
• Those who earned Allāh's anger (who knew and did not act, foremost the Jews) and those astray (who acted upon ignorance, foremost the Christians, and the people of innovation)
Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 21/4/25
