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Sura Al-Fatiha, The Heart of the Qur’an
Reflections on the Opening Chapter of the Qur’anic Recitation
M. Ali Lakhani, KC, the founding editor of Sacred Web, is a lawyer and author. Raised in England, he lives in Canada, and writes on traditional metaphysics, modernity and literature.
Reflections on the Opening Chapter of the Qur’anic Recitation
The aim of this essay is to look beyond modernist conceptions of politics, rooted in a materialistic view of reality that reifies the world and deifies man, and to propose in their stead a principled basis that transcends both reductive and relativistic conceptions.