"Praise be to Allah, we praise Him, we seek His help, we seek His forgiveness, and we turn to Him in repentance"
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The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions, and upon those who follow them in excellence until the Day of Judgment. As for what follows:
The author, may Allah guide him, said: "Praise be to Allah, we praise Him, we seek His help, we seek His forgiveness, and we turn to Him in repentance".
We do not need to repeat these phrases because they have already been mentioned, except for the sake of brevity. "Praise be to Allah" means describing the One who is praised with perfection. Describing Allah the Exalted with perfection, accompanied by love and magnification, means that when you say "I praise Allah," you mean that you love Him, magnify Him, and describe Him with perfection.
The article "al" in "al-hamd" (praise) indicates comprehensiveness, and the "li" in "li-Allah" (for Allah) indicates entitlement and exclusivity. That is, the One who is entitled to all praise and exclusively possesses it is Allah, Mighty and Majestic.
The phrase "we praise Him" is an affirmation of the nominal sentence before it. "We seek His help" means we ask Him for assistance in all matters. "We seek His forgiveness" means we ask Him for forgiveness, and forgiveness is that Allah covers the servant's sin and overlooks it, as indicated by the derivation, for it is derived from "al-maghfar" (the helmet), which a warrior wears to cover his head to protect him from arrows. "And we turn to Him in repentance"—this phrase is widespread in the books of the scholars, may Allah have mercy on them, but it is not in the hadith, which is the hadith of need. If a person says it, I hope there is no harm on him, but if he omits it, that is better.
The author, may Allah guide him, said: "Praise be to Allah, we praise Him, we seek His help, we seek His forgiveness, and we turn to Him in repentance".
We do not need to repeat these phrases because they have already been mentioned, except for the sake of brevity. "Praise be to Allah" means describing the One who is praised with perfection. Describing Allah the Exalted with perfection, accompanied by love and magnification, means that when you say "I praise Allah," you mean that you love Him, magnify Him, and describe Him with perfection.
The article "al" in "al-hamd" (praise) indicates comprehensiveness, and the "li" in "li-Allah" (for Allah) indicates entitlement and exclusivity. That is, the One who is entitled to all praise and exclusively possesses it is Allah, Mighty and Majestic.
The phrase "we praise Him" is an affirmation of the nominal sentence before it. "We seek His help" means we ask Him for assistance in all matters. "We seek His forgiveness" means we ask Him for forgiveness, and forgiveness is that Allah covers the servant's sin and overlooks it, as indicated by the derivation, for it is derived from "al-maghfar" (the helmet), which a warrior wears to cover his head to protect him from arrows. "And we turn to Him in repentance"—this phrase is widespread in the books of the scholars, may Allah have mercy on them, but it is not in the hadith, which is the hadith of need. If a person says it, I hope there is no harm on him, but if he omits it, that is better.