Malik yawm al-din (Lord of the Day of Judgement)

The fourth verse of the Fatiha is read as "Maalik yawm al-din" and as "Malik yawm al-din". Sha'rawi holds both readings valid: "maalik" means that God alone disposes of that Day without intermediary. ^{1 2}

Sha'rawi holds that the Day is a span of time, that God created time, and that the Day is in God's knowledge with its events, its limits set by Him alone. ^{3 5}

Sha'rawi says the Day of reckoning stops the strong from escaping God's justice, and assures the wronged that the wrongdoer will not escape. He holds that the whole religion, prayer, fasting and charity, rests on belief in accountability. ^{1 4 6}

This is Sha'rawi's reading and is attributed to him. He holds both readings valid. The scan gives no views of reading scholars or other commentators, and none has been checked.