Al-?amdu lill?h (Arabic: ??????? ?????) or al?amdulill?h, also known as Tahmid is an Arabic phrase meaning "Praise be to God". It is frequently used by Muslims of every background, due to its centrality to the texts of the Quran and the words of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, but also spoken by some Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews.
The meaning and in-depth explanation of the phrase have been the subject of much exegesis.
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Meaning
The phrase has three basic parts:
- Al - The definite article, "the".
- ?amdu - Meaning "praise", "commendation".
- Li-l-l?h - preposition + noun Allah. Li- is a preposition meaning "for," "belonging to," etc.
The word "Allah" is itself the fusion of the definite article al (the) and the word ilah (a god, deity). Like in English, the article is used here to single out the noun as being the only one of its kind, "the god" (the one and only) or "God" with a capital G (the concept of capital letters does not exist in Arabic). Therefore, "Allah" is the Arabic word for "God". "il?h" is the Arabic cognate of the ancient Semitic name for God, El.
The phrase is first found in the second verse of the first sura of the Qur'an (Al-Fatiha). So frequently do Muslims and Arabic-speaking Jews and Christians invoke this phrase that the quadriliteral verb hamdala (????), "to say al-Hamdu li-'llah" was coined, and the derived noun hamdalah (?????) is used as a name for this phrase.
On any occasion and in any situation when Muslims desire to praise God, they may say: Alhamdulillah (????? ???).
The triconsonantal root ?-M-D (? ? ?), meaning "praise," can also be found in the names Muhammad, Mahmud, Hamid and Ahmad.
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Translation
English translations of "Alhamdulillah" include:
- "All praise is due to God alone" (Muhammad Asad)
- "All the praises and thanks be to Allah" (Muhammad Muhsin Khan)
- "Praise be to Allah" (Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Marmaduke Pickthall)
- "All praise is due to Allah" (Saheeh International)
Use in other historical sources
Jabir ibn Abd-Allah wrote in a hadith that Muhammad, said: "The best remembrance of God is to repeat La ilaha ilallah and the best prayer (du'a) is Alhamdulillah (all praise belongs to God)." (Narrated by Nasa'i, Ibn Majah, and Hakim who declared its chain 'sound'.)
Abu Huraira wrote that Muhammad said: "Any matter of importance which is not begun with Alhumdulillah remains defective." From Abu Dawood
Anas bin Malik wrote that Muhammad said: "God is pleased with his slave who says, 'Alhumdulillah' when he takes a morsel of food and drinks a draught of water."
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