The Lords Prayer

When the Huwayiroon  *1  asked Nabi Isa (as), Jesus the son of Mary *2, for a prayer he gave them what is known as the Lords Prayer:

<<Our Lord who art in Heaven 

Hallowed be thy name 

Thy kingdom come,

Thy will be done,

On Earth as it is Heaven. 

….>>

It is said that this prayer unites the Christian World. 

And then some 600 years later, Muhammed (saw) was given Al-Fathihah- a prayer that known as the opening, the bringer of success, the seven oft repeated, and The Mother of the Book (Umm ul Kitab). 

Al Fathihah starts with a verse so phenomenal that it is sufficient for you to stand in awe of the Most Merciful, whose Mercy is so powerful that it cannot be thwarted nor diminished. 

This Friday, and then for the rest of your life, when you stand in prayer contemplate the meaning of this prayer. 

Find the reading (meaning) within it that is the answer to the prayer of Nabi Isa. 

Search for and find the reading (meaning) with the connectives between each verse that reveals it power. 

And then let that be for you a daily source of immense happiness, a daily source of both guidance and instruction. 

That we are the successors, and inheritors of the Kingdom of God on Earth. 

And this religion of ours is God’s very own religion *3. 

But do not become like those that believe that they are blessed, and then oppress the people, for indeed God hates the oppressors. 

Nor like those who believe that they are blessed and stray, inventing things in the religion for which there is no basis. 

The true religion is simple. 

And do not complicate it, thinking that in doing so it brings you closer, for it only drives you, and others, further away. 

And right action stands out clear from error. *4

*May you be blessed with a lifetime of contemplation* 

Knowledge is through study and contemplation, not lectures, nor this ostensibly above. 

*1 the disciples, who when Isa (as) asked who will be the helpers for God, said “we will be the helpers of God”. 

*2 Nabi Isa (as) called himself alternatively the son of man, and the son of David.

In the first instance emphasising his human nature. 

 In the second instance ruling himself out from being the Lord of David, the one foretold to come from out of the Dessert. 

*3 endorsed and established by Him. From the time of Ibrahim (as), He had called us Muslims (last verse of Surah Hajj), and every Prophet and Messenger that He sent was Muslim. 

*4 follows from the greatest verse of the Quran. Ayah tul Kursi.