The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 159
Allāh the Exalted 159 of His excellences which does not exist today, but would be achieved tomorrow. There is nothing vain in His kingdom. He provides for all the worlds. He bestows His mercy absolutely without any prior action on the part of man, and also in return for man's actions. He awards reward and punishment at their due time. We worship Him and seek His help and pray that He should show us the way of all bounties and should keep us away from the ways of His anger and of error. . This prayer which is set out in Surah Fatihah is the antithesis of the prayer taught in the Gospel, inasmuch as. God's present kingdom of the earth is denied in the Gospel. Thus according to the Gospel neither God's. Rububiyyat, nor His Raḥmāniyyat, nor His Raḥimiyyat nor. His Malikiyyat is in operation on the earth because God's kingdom has not yet arrived upon the earth, but Surah. Fātiḥah indicates that God's kingdom is in operation on the earth and thus all the essentials of the kingdom are set out in the Surah. . It is obvious that a king should possess the following qualities: He should have power to provide for people and Surah Fatihah proclaims that God is the Sustainer of the worlds. The second quality of a king should be that whatever his subjects should need for settling down in the earth should be provided out of his kingly mercy and not in return for any service. Surah Fātiḥah affirms this quality in God by calling Him Raḥmān. The third quality which a king should possess is that he should help his subjects towards achievement of that which they cannot achieve by their own efforts. The Surah affirms this quality by the use of the word Raḥīm. The fourth quality that a king should possess is that he should have power to