Sūra al-Fātiḥa

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

The Most Merciful. ∗ It is He who has taught the Qur’an. ∗ He has created man. ∗ He has taught him [articulate thought and] speech.(55:1-4)

We offer Him praise and thanks, and seek His blessings for His Prophet, whom He sent as a mercy to all the worlds, and through its signs and indications made his greatest miracle encompass the universe’s truths, so to remain permanently through the passage of time till the Day of Requital, and for all his Family and Companions.

SO KNOW firstly that our aim from these indications, is a commentary on a number of the symbols of the Qur’an’s ordering and composition (naẓm), for [one aspect of] its miraculousness is manifested in its composition. Indeed, the embroidery of its composition is its most brilliant [form of] miraculousness.

And know secondly that the fundamental aims of the Qur’an and its essential elements are fourfold: divine unity (al-tawḥīd), prophethood (al-nubūwwa), the resurrection of the dead (al-ḥashr), and justice (al-‘adāla). [^1] For when mankind, like a successive caravan and procession, departs from the valleys of the past and its lands, travels in the deserts of existence and life and proceeds towards the heights of the future, facing towards its

[^1]:In the Turkish translation (1955), the author added “worship (ibâdet)” to the fourth aim, making it “justice and worship.”