Ose Shalom Bimromav

Radiate_Truth · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 1056

Ose Shalom Bimromav

obmar · Site Admin Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 5697

subhanallah, subhanallah, subhanallah

Subhan'allah (Arabic سبحان الله) is an Arabic phrase often translated as "Exalted is Allah."

Said Mohammed bin AbeeBakr Abdulqader al-Razee, in his book "Mukhtar al-Sihah" one of the classic Arabic-wordbooks:

The meaning of subhanallah is, making Allah pure, and it is bound to its original word (sabh, meaning void) as if he said, I verily absolve Allah from all evil.

The origin for the word is sabh, voidness, or tasbeeh, making something void. So the direct literal meaning of the phrase is Allah is void... And there is a part that is unpronounced which is "void of all evil". And this is the way that it is used in the quran. For example it says; "Subhanallah amma yasiffon - Void/Free is allah from that (evil) which they ascribe (to him)" and "Subhanalla amma yoshrikoon - Free is Allah from those polytheistic deeds that they do."

And the word subhan does not come from the word sabaha as one said. It only happens to have the root-letter s.b.h.

It is also often cited during the Islamic prayer (salat). During the sermon (khutba) in the mosques.

The statement of "Subhan'allah" testifies one's removing any anthropomorphic elements or associations with God, as al-Razi says in his Mukhtar al-Sihah, (تنزيه tanziyh).

Radiate_Truth · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 1056

I thought it was a beautiful video...
What you wrote to go with it, is even more beautiful.

I think I'll post it around the web with your statement...

obmar · Site Admin Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 5697

When one sees something that reminds
the Greatness of God as seen in the creation

one is asked to say
subhanallah
subhanallah
subhanallah

Radiate_Truth · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 1056

I'd be saying it all the time then since I see it all around me all the time.