Al-Qur’an Surah #1

Out the readings in the Qur’an that we had to do for class, I actually was able to read some of the Surah’s in-depth at my ICR site. We deeply analyzed a couple of Surahs with one of the Sunday school teachers. I thought I would share what I learned from her in this blog post about Surah 1, which is called “The Prologue”. This Surah is the opening prayer and is one of the most important Surah’s to know within the religion (or at least that is what the Mosque I volunteer at follows). This is the Surah talks about some of the fundamental and most important beliefs of Islam. The Surah starts with “All praise be to Allah”- which means that all praise and prayer is going to Allah, who is the god of Islam. It then goes to talk about how good Allah is, saying he is the “most beneficent, ever-merciful”. It then talks about how to follow Allah who will “guide us to the path that is straight” and to not follow others. This opening prayer is to show the importance of Allah and who he is, and how important it is to follow Allah and Allah only. It also talks about if people do praise and follow Allah will be on the correct path in life. This is the Surah that I wrote on the board for the children to memorize, and they have to know word for word because of how important this Surah is in Islam.