The Opening
In the Name of God, the Infinitely Good, the All-Merciful.[1:1]
In the Name of God, the Clement, the Merciful. [UM]
In the Name of God, the Infinitely Good, the Ever-Merciful. [UM]
In the Name of God, the All-Merciful, the Merciful. [SS]
In the Name of God, the Infinitely Good, the All-Merciful. [M] [SQCI]
In the Name of God, the Infinitely Good, the Boundlessly Merciful. [SA]

[1:2]
Praise be to God, the Lord of the worlds. [SS] [M]

[1:3]
The Infinitely Good, the All-Merciful. [M]

[1:4]
Owner of the Day of Judgement. [UM]
Master of the day of judgement. [M]

[1:5]
Thee we worship and from Thee we seek help. [UM]
It is Thee we adore, and it is in Thee we seek refuge. [UM]
Thee we worship, and in Thee we seek help. [M]

[1:6]
Lead us on the straight path. [UM]
Guide us upon the way of Transcendence. [UM]
Lead us along the straight path. [OS] [SS]
Guide us up the ascending path. [WS] [RS]
Guide us upon the straight path. [M] [SA]

[1:7]
The Path of those to whom Thou accordest Thy Grace, not of those who incur Thy wrath, nor of those who go astray. [UM]
Those upon whom is Thy Grace, not those upon whom is Thy Wrath, nor those who go astray. [UM]
The way of those on whom Thy Grace is not those who deserve anger nor those who are astray. [UM]
The path of those on whom Thy grace is, not those on whom Thine anger is, nor those who are astray. [M]

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Sources Used

• Unpublished Material (1938-2005) [UM]

BOOKS
• The Book of Certainty (1952) [BC]
• A Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century (1961) [SS]
• What is Sufism (1975) [WS]
• The Quranic Art of Calligraphy and Illumination (1976) [QACI]
• Muhammad (1983) [M]
• Symbol and Archetype (1991) [SA]
• Sufi Poems (2004) [SP]
• Mecca (2004) [Mec.]
• Return to the Spirit (2005) [RS]
• Splendours of Qur’an Calligraphy and Illumination (2005) [SQCI]

ARTICLES
• “Proofs of Islam”(1954). Islamic Cultural Centre. [PI]
• “The Islamic and Christian Conceptions of the March of Time” (1954) The Islamic Quarterly, Vol.1 No.4. [ICCT]
• “The Origins of Sufism (1956) The Islamic Quarterly, Vol.III No.1 [OS]
• “Sufism”: Religion in the Middle East (1969); ed.A.J. Arberry [S]
• “Sufi Answers to Questions On Ultimate Reality”: Studies in Comparative Religions 1979 Summer/Autumn [SCR-SA]
• “The Nature and Origin of Sufism”: Islamic Spirituality (1985) [NOS]
• “Mystical Poetry”: The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, Vol.2 (1990) [MP]

LECTURES
• “The Quranic Doctrine of the Afterlife” [L-QD]
• “The Quranic Origins of Sufism” [L-QOS]
• “Human Origins and Destinies According to the Great Religions of the World” [L-HOD]
• “Metaphysics and the Perennial Philosophy” [L-MPP]
• “An Introduction to Islam” [L-II]
• “The Universality of the Quran” [L-UQ]
• Private Talks [L-PT]

Books without Quranic Ayaat
• Collected Poems
• Ancient Beliefs and Modern Superstitions
• The Eleventh Hour
• The Secret of Shakespeare

Articles without Quranic Ayaat
• “Signs of the Times”: Studies in Comparative Religions 1970 Winter
• “Ibn Aliwah” Encyclopedia of Islam, Second Edition
• “Kabd” Encyclopedia of Islam, Second Edition