Surah Ar-Rahman 55:78
سُورَةُ الرَّحۡمَٰن · Medinan · Verse 78 of 78
تَبَٰرَكَ ٱسْمُ رَبِّكَ ذِى ٱلْجَلَٰلِ وَٱلْإِكْرَامِ
Translation
Blessed is the name of your Lord, full of majesty, bestowing honour.
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'Blessed is the Name of your Lord, Owner of Majesty and Honour.' Ibn Ashur and al-Biqa'i note the Surah's perfect ring-composition: it opened with the Name 'Ar-Rahman' and now closes by blessing that same Name, full of majesty (jalal) and generous honour (ikram), echoing verse 27. Mercy is the first word and the blessed Name is the last. Ask yourself: the whole journey, creation, cosmos, warning, judgement, the Gardens, is bracketed by His Name, beginning in mercy and ending in praise. That is the shape a life is meant to take too: to begin and end with Him. If everything I've read arcs from His Name back to His Name, the truest response to the entire Surah is the one it ends on, to bless the Name of the Lord I am, in the end, returning to. Does my day begin and close the way this Surah does?
Grounded in classical tafsir: Ibn Ashur, al-Biqa'i, al-Saadi.
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