“Siraat alladheena-an`amta-`alayhim-ghayril maghdhoobi`alayhim wa lad-dhaalleen”[1]

 

The path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor (those who believe in the Names of Allah as comprising their essential self and experience the awareness of their force) not of those who have evoked Your wrath (who have failed to see the reality of their selves and the corporeal worlds and who have become conditioned with their ego-identities) nor of those who are astray (from the Reality and the understanding of the One denoted by the name Allah, the al-Wahid-ul Ahad-as-Samad, and who thus associate partners with Allah [shirq; duality]).

 

What is the path of divine blessings and bestowments?

“There are three important points here:

First of all, the path itself is the most important and powerful blessing…

Secondly, the path of bestowments can be understood as an important support and help…

Thirdly, the path attributed to them is not by their choice, but bestowed upon them by divine grace.  The path is their obligation, it is their destiny…” (Hak Dini Kur’an Dili, Vol: 1; pg: 130) 

Essentially, the path of blessings is formed as a result of the grace of the Rahman and surely it elevates one to the consciousness of his servitude, nothing can be a greater blessing than this!

But besides this general grace of Allah there is also a specific grace. Who are the ones blessed with this specific grace?

According to the Quran these are by rank and degree, the righteous, the martyrs, the saints, and the Nabis who have attained the state of divine closeness (yakeen) to Allah. Hence the path of blessings can also be construed as the path that takes one to the state of divine closeness…

Who are the ones being warned with the words “maghdhoobi” and “dhaalleen”?

“Maghdhoobi” means “those who have become subject to divine wrath” …

Wrath is the natural outcome of wrongdoing…

The biggest wrath is the wrong that one does on to himself, which is referred to as “duality” (shirq)…

 Duality is as an idea or a belief that obstructs the truth by assuming the existence of an ‘other’ besides the illimitable and infinite Absolute Oneness!

This naturally spawns wrath…

Hence, the word “maghdhoobi” refers to the people of duality who believe in the concept of a “deity-god” (thus fragmenting the Absolute Oneness of existence)

The word “dhaalleen” on the other hand means diversion or to ‘go astray’ from the right path, whether consciously or unconsciously…

If after one has found the truth and is living upon it but then adopts an idea or a belief that takes him off this path, he has gone astray…

 

Surely only Allah knows the reality but in short, my understanding is that the word “maghdhoobi” in the Quran refers to the people of duality who believe in a deity-god (the mushriqoon) and the word “dhaalleen” refers to the “people of the book” who have been notified of the reality of Allah and Islam but who digress from this truth, i.e. the teachings of Moses (pbuh) and Jesus (pbuh).

This is all I can share from my observations into the depths of the chapter al-Fatiha for now…