and it also encompasses provision and victory. For when a person is guided, then instructs and guides others through his words, his deeds, and the very sight of him, such complete guidance is the greatest means of obtaining provision and victory. It is thus clear that this supplication encompasses everything one could seek.

This also makes clear to you that nothing else can take the place of al-Fātihah, and that its superiority over other speech is greater than the superiority of bowing and prostration over all other acts of humble submission. If those particular actions are indispensable, then these particular words have an even stronger claim to be so. And Allah knows best.

May Allah bless His Prophet Muhammad and grant him abundant peace.