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Today I have perfected your religion for you, and I have<br />
<strong>com</strong>pleted My favour upon you, and I have approved Islam<br />
for you as religion…. (<strong>Al</strong>-Ma’idah, 5:3)<br />
CONCLUSION<br />
A proper understanding of what human beings are in their depths,<br />
and what religion as such is and aims to do, shows incontrovertibly<br />
that Islam is an internally-perfect and perfectly simple Divine<br />
‘roadmap’ to show human beings the straight path to Paradise. When<br />
human beings know themselves, they know what the religion of Islam<br />
is; when human beings understand themselves, they understand<br />
why the religion of Islam is. Thus the Opening Chapter (<strong>Al</strong>-Fatihah)<br />
of the Qur’an—and the beginning of every prayer in Islam—is:<br />
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In the Name of God, the Infinitely Good, the Ever-Merciful. /<br />
Praise be to God, the Lord of the worlds. /<br />
The Infinitely Good, the Ever-Merciful. /<br />
Master of the Day of Judgement. /<br />
It is You we adore, and it is from You we seek help. /<br />
Guide us upon the straight path. /<br />
The Path of those on whom is Your Grace, not of those on whom<br />
there is wrath, nor of those who go astray.<br />
(<strong>Al</strong>-Fatihah, 1:1–7)<br />
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