Today's word is Rabul Alamin. Both words are simple Urdu again. Rab and Aalamin. Rab means sustainer (Paalnay wala). Aalameen is plural of Aalam meaning World and AL in Rab-AL-Aalamin means THE, which we have already seen previously. Hence Rab-AL-Aalamin means "Sustainer (of all) The Worlds"
Question: Where did 'of all' come from ?
Answer: I mentioned before that there's no OF in Arabic. There are no conjunctions in Arabic. It's a very efficient language in that way. AL (alif laam) means THE. In the sense of "All Of The". For example Al-Hamd would mean "Sab Tareefain". It is used in exhaustive sense. It means "jitnee bhi tareefain hain woh siraf aur siraf Allah kay leeyay hain. Kissi aur ki tareef nahin kee jaa saktee". Which is why hum jab bhi kissi ki tareef kartay hain we should say Mashallah. Otherwise Allah naraz ho jatay hain aur uss say who cheez cheen laitay hain. Similarly Al-Alamin means all of the worlds exhaustively.
Today we'll look at two most powerful Arabic words: Ar-Rahman & Ar-Raheem. Both are Allah's names. The Qur'an refers to Allah with 99 different names, each name refers to one of His attribute / quality. Since Allah has used them to describe himself nobody is sure exactly what they mean. But many scholars give different opinions about their meaning.
Both these names belong to the root "Ra Ha Ma" (Ray Hay Meem) which directly translates into Urdu as Reham meaning "Mercy".
So although both Rehman and Raheem mean "Merciful".. we're not sure about the fine difference between them.
One scholar which appealed to me most thinks that one means "limitlessly merciful (in amount of mercy) " and the other means "continuously Merciful (unlimited in time and frequency)".
While requesting for forgiveness in dua call Him by the name of Ya-Rahman Ya- Raheem.
Answer: I mentioned before that there's no OF in Arabic. There are no conjunctions in Arabic. It's a very efficient language in that way. AL (alif laam) means THE. In the sense of "All Of The". For example Al-Hamd would mean "Sab Tareefain". It is used in exhaustive sense. It means "jitnee bhi tareefain hain woh siraf aur siraf Allah kay leeyay hain. Kissi aur ki tareef nahin kee jaa saktee". Which is why hum jab bhi kissi ki tareef kartay hain we should say Mashallah. Otherwise Allah naraz ho jatay hain aur uss say who cheez cheen laitay hain. Similarly Al-Alamin means all of the worlds exhaustively.
Today we'll look at two most powerful Arabic words: Ar-Rahman & Ar-Raheem. Both are Allah's names. The Qur'an refers to Allah with 99 different names, each name refers to one of His attribute / quality. Since Allah has used them to describe himself nobody is sure exactly what they mean. But many scholars give different opinions about their meaning.
Both these names belong to the root "Ra Ha Ma" (Ray Hay Meem) which directly translates into Urdu as Reham meaning "Mercy".
So although both Rehman and Raheem mean "Merciful".. we're not sure about the fine difference between them.
One scholar which appealed to me most thinks that one means "limitlessly merciful (in amount of mercy) " and the other means "continuously Merciful (unlimited in time and frequency)".
While requesting for forgiveness in dua call Him by the name of Ya-Rahman Ya- Raheem.
Don't forget to say dua for yourself after every session. Rabbe Zidnee Ilma
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