Arabic vocabulary
الحمد is how you say “Praise be to” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
قال أبو صالح الراوي عن أبي هريرة، لما سئل عن كيفية ذكرهن، قال يقول سبحان الله، والحمد لله، والله أكبر، حتى يكون منهن كلهن ثلاثًا وثلاثين
Abu Salih, the narrator from Abu Hurairah, when asked about how to recite them, said: 'Say: Subhanallah, Alhamdulillah, and Allahu Akbar until each is thirty-three.'
وَالْحَمْدُ — and Alhamdulillah. This is 'and the praise' — the second formula, with 'the praise' as the nominative subject of a verbless sentence: 'and the praise [is] for God'. The predicate, 'for God', follows.
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