Surah Al-Waqi'ah 56:74
سُورَةُ الوَاقِعَةِ · Meccan · Verse 74 of 96
فَسَبِّحْ بِٱسْمِ رَبِّكَ ٱلْعَظِيمِ
Translation
so [Prophet] glorify the name of your Lord, the Supreme.
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'So glorify the name of your Lord, the Most Great.' al-Saadi and Ibn Ashur note the fitting response after the long catalogue of gifts I falsely claimed as mine, not guilt but tasbih, glorifying His name: the mind, corrected, turns to praise. Ask yourself: the proper end of realising how much is gift and how little is mine is not shame but worship. Having been shown that my body, food, water, and fire are all His, the verse hands me the natural response: to glorify Him. Gratitude and awe are where honest reflection is meant to land. When I truly grasp how thoroughly I am carried, provided for, and made, moment by moment, by Another, does my heart move to praise, or do I let the insight fade back into the old, ungrateful assumption that it was all mine anyway?
Grounded in classical tafsir: al-Saadi, Ibn Ashur, al-Biqa'i.
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