Surah Ar-Rahmaan 55:78 — Meaning, Translation & Reflection
سُورَةُ الرَّحۡمَٰن · Medinan · Verse 78 of 78
تَبَٰرَكَ ٱسْمُ رَبِّكَ ذِى ٱلْجَلَٰلِ وَٱلْإِكْرَامِ
English: Blessed is the name of your Lord, full of majesty, bestowing honour.
Bengali: কত পূণ্যময় আপনার পালনকর্তার নাম, যিনি মহিমাময় ও মহানুভব।
Meaning & 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.
Reflect with the Five Lenses
Maani's framework for Tadabbur (heart-centred reflection) on Surah Ar-Rahmaan 55:78:
- Wording. Look closely at the specific words and structure. Which word stands out, and why might Allah have chosen it here?
- Quranic Worlds. Place the verse in its context — what is happening around it, and what world does it open up?
- Personal Experience. Ask not just what this means, but what it means TO me and FOR me, right now in my life.
- Connections. How does this verse connect to other verses, to the Sunnah, or to themes across the Quran?
- General Lessons. What timeless lesson or action point can I carry away and live by?