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    The Power of Prayers and the Inner Meanings of Surat Al-Fatiha
    The Power of Prayers and the Inner Meanings of Surat Al-Fatiha
    The Power of Prayers and the Inner Meanings of Surat Al-Fatiha
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    The Power of Prayers and the Inner Meanings of Surat Al-Fatiha

    By Hesham El-Essawy

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    What is the meaning of prayers?
    What does Surat Al-Fatiha mean?
    What is the power of prayers?
    What is the meaning of life?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHesham El-Essawy
    Release dateApr 27, 2011
    ISBN9780956554321
    The Power of Prayers and the Inner Meanings of Surat Al-Fatiha
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    Hesham El-Essawy

    DR HESHAM EL-ESSAWY Graduated in 1967 from the dental school at Cairo University. Taught Oral Surgery at the University of Cairo Dental School as junior staff. Worked in Hospital Oral Surgery in the NHS from 1970. Taught Oral Surgery at King's College Hospital, University of London. Obtained the higher degree of Master in Science in Oral Pathology from the London College Dental School, University of London. Obtained the higher degree of Fellow in Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. Dr El-Essawy worked in general practice NHS (National Health Service) Dentistry before starting his full time private dental practice in Harley Street, London since 1975 till the present time. Besides his work as a dental surgeon with a deeply felt responsibility and a dedicated mission to help mercury toxic patients, Dr El-Essawy is the founder and the chairman of the Islamic Society for the Promotion of Religious Tolerance . He is a writer and broadcaster who contributed widely in the British Media. He authored four books so far, the first is 'El-Essawy Interpretation of The Holy Quran'. Other published books are 'The Power of Prayers', 'The Importance of Tolerance' and 'Fasting, what for?

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      The Power of Prayers and the Inner Meanings of Surat Al-Fatiha - Hesham El-Essawy

      The Power of Prayers

      and

      The Inner Meanings

      of

      Surat Al-Fatiha

      The Opening Surah

      of

      The Holy Qur’an

      Published by THC-UK Books at Smashwords

      Copyright 2011 by Dr. Hesham Mahmoud El-Essawy

      Smashword Edition, License Notes

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      A Little Personal Introduction

      As a 21 yrs old young dentist, just graduated from Cairo University, I made an appointment with my would-be father in Law, the late, but always beloved, Mohammad Shouman. I went there to ask him for his daughter’s hand in marriage. The meeting went well, so well in fact that he stood up and said to me, would you like to recite Al Fati’ha now? I was stunned! He accepted me. He wanted us to recite Al Fati’ha- the first Sura of the Holy Qur’an- to signal his acceptance and his blessings of my marriage to his daughter.

      Al Fati’ha is the Sura of the Qur’an that worshipping Muslims recite at least seventeen times every day in their five daily prayers. But, what did reciting Surat Al Fati’ha have to do with marriage, I wondered?

      In Egypt, where I was born and where I spent the formative years of my life, people recite Al Fati’ah as a ‘seal’ over any contract, as a goodwill gesture, as a blessing invoked over an agreement, business or social!

      How did a Sura of the Qur’an come to be considered as a ‘Holy seal’? I wondered.

      The question remained in my mind until recently. Over the last 35 years I have been blessed and tested with a great gift from Allah, the God of the world, and that was the gift of understanding the meanings of the holy Qur’an and the facility and duty to transmit such an understanding to some members of my human family.

      But, when I finished this work, I felt that a great friend of mine was going away and leaving me, and that great friend was the Qur’an itself, or more precisely, that companionship, that dialogue, which was an inherent part of translation. A void in my soul threatened to erupt until one day, when I was walking to my car from my office, and suddenly and without introduction, that beloved ‘input thought’, that ‘idea’, or call it what you may, suddenly dropped into my mind, bypassing my ears and any other senses. It ‘said’ this, and it ‘said’ it in a wonderful, loving, friendly and humorous manner, ‘did you really think that you finished translating the Qur’an? You did not even notice that the language of Al-Fati’ha is different from the language of the Qur’an!"

      That was it; it ended there! I was left alone to ‘think about it, to contemplate what is meant’. I stopped right in the middle of the street, thinking, what does that mean? How could the language of ‘Al Fati’ha be different from the language of the Qur’an when Al Fati’ha is from the Qur’an?

      A few days later, I saw it, I saw what this latest ‘education’ was pointing me towards, and it was this; when I recite, ‘Bismillahi Arrahmanil Raheem’ or ‘in the name of Allah, the most compassionate, the most merciful’, who is talking here? It is me who is speaking. When I recite, ‘Iyaka na’budu wa iyaka nasta’een’ it is I who is speaking also, and when I recite, ‘Ihdina assiratal mustakeem’ or ‘guide us to the straight path’, it is I who is speaking too. But, when I recite, from the second Sura, Alif, Laam, Meem, this is the book in which there is no doubt… who is speaking here? It is Allah, not I.

      When I recite Al Fati’ha it is I who is speaking, but when I recite Al Baqarah or any other Surah of the Qur’an, it is Allah who is speaking!

      I jumped for joy when I realized that, and I said to Allah, So, that is why you have ‘grammatically added’ Al Fati’ha to the Qur’an! It is because they were indeed slightly different, but only functionally. I realized that this was yet another of Allah’s favours upon me, for He was comforting me while educating me about a concept of the utmost importance.

      It is true then that the language of Al Fati’ha is different from the language of the Qur’an, different only in that, when you recite Al Fati’ha it is you and I talking, and when you recite the rest of the Qur’an, it is Allah talking. Al Fati’ha then is what God taught us to say when we wish to address Him.

      What I described above was not the only ‘experience’ or ‘education’ which I was given, and am extremely grateful for, for there was another instance which happened, again after a period of depressed mood caused by a viral infection that made me cough for eight weeks. Suddenly, as I was sitting totally empty and without enough energy even to think, this happened. Again, the words were imprinted in my mind, nothing that passed through my ears or any other senses. It was

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