Thus he interpreted “the Seven Mathani and the Magnificent Qur’an” as referring to al-Fatiha itself. The coordination here, then, is a case of coupling attributes with attributes, not of coupling separate described entities with one another. A comparable instance is His word: “Glorify the Name of your Lord, the Most High, who created and proportioned, who determined and guided, who brought forth the pasture” (Al-Aʿla 1–4). The same pattern is found in the reading reported from ʿAʾisha and other Companions: “Maintain the prayers, and the middle prayer, and the ʿAsr prayer.” Some Qur’anic commentators have taken “the Magnificent Qur’an” here to mean the rest of the Qur’an, viewing the phrase as an example of mentioning the specific before the general…(1) yet such usage is rare; the well-known order is the reverse—mentioning the specific after the general.

The sixth name: al-Ṣalah (the Prayer). It is established in the hadith of Abu Hurayrah that the Prophet ﷺ said: “Allah, Exalted is He, has declared: I have divided the Prayer between Myself and My servant into two halves; one half is for Me and the other half is for My servant, and My servant shall have what he asks for.” Muslim recorded it (2).

It was called “Prayer” because the formal prayer is never without it and is invalid unless it is recited; hence it was designated “Prayer,” just as the formal prayer itself is also termed “Qur’an,” in the sense that