03 Nov Sūratu’l-Fātihah [The Opening] : (1:5)
إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ You alone do we worship… (Al-Fātihah 1:5) Our attention here is directed to the beginning of the verse where the object pronoun “You” is placed before the finite verb of “we worship.” The effect of placing the object pronoun in the initial position implies exclusivity: “O God, we wholeheartedly proclaim, acknowledge,...