Part 4 : Deep explanation of Ayat 5 of Surah Al Fatiha

In this blog article, In sha Allah I will try to explain little tafseer and beautiful insights of ayat 5 of surah Al-Fatiha. This article is my understanding based on one of the lecture of brother Nouman Ali Khan.
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Surah Al Fatiha Ayat 5: (verse 5)

إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ
( "It is you we worship and you we ask for help" )

If we truly understand verses before this verse, we will automatically come to conclusion which is mentioned in this ayat. I.e we worship you(Allah). Pay attention to this ayat, it is not like command saying worship Allah. Rather we are saying here by our own that we worship Allah. When we say we only worship Allah. It is big commitment. We can't do it by our own. So next we are saying in this ayat that we need your help Allah.

There are dozens of words for help in arabic. So what is unique in "Istia'ana" ? What is the wisdom behind using this word here ? Lets know this. "Istia'ana" means you are doing some work and trying hard for the same but you can not finish that on your own so you need someone else help. For E.g: You were driving and tire got punctured. You took spare tire from deck and wanted to lift car so to fit tire. But you can't lift car on your own so you call out someone to help. This kind of help is called "Istia'ana". 

So lazy people can not asked for "Istia'ana" as it requires you to first try and put efforts then ask for other's help. It is principal of Allah that you first try then Allah will help. People want Allah's help but don't want to do anything on their own. We have example of companions of Muhammad SAW. They went into battlefield then angels came to help.
And other people think what we got is all because of us. For e.g some says I got job because I was talented. But it is never the case. whatever we acheive, its only because Allah helps.


Another point to notice here is, when you ask someone for help it's always specific. For e.g I was in need of pen so I asked someone to help me with your pen. But in this ayah we are asking Allah for help but in what ? In religion ? In work ? In marriage ? In what ? Its because when someone is very desperate they lose out of what. They don't know how to explain in words. Then they just say HELP. That's what we say in Fatiha. Also, there are so many things in which we need Allah's help which we cant event list. That's why we just say help.

Another very beautiful Insight here is as follows :
In this ayat, we first say we worship Allah then we say we ask for Allah's help. Why can't we reverse this order ? Answer : We were sent on this earth for what ? To worship or to seek help ? Obvious answer is to worship our creator and when we worship Allah we need his help. That's why first worship is mentioned and then help. So our purpose is mentioned first and then what we need to accomplish that purpose is mentioned later. Also, when we worship Allah it is for Allah And when we ask for help it is for us. So What you want for Allah should be mentioned first and what you want for yourself is mentioned later.

In this blog article, I tried to explain very little about what I understand from ayat 5 of surah Al Fatiha. This was based on my notes taken from one of the lectures of brother Nouman Ali Khan.
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