THE KORAN
Translated by E.H. Palmer

THE OPENING CHAPTER
(I. Mecca.)

IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
Praise belongs to God, the Lord of the worlds, the merciful, the
compassionate, the ruler of the day of judgment! Thee we serve and
Thee we ask for aid. Guide us in the right path, the path of those
Thou art gracious to; not of those Thou art wroth with; nor of those
who err.