Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: "All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds," defining praise, and the difference between praise and commendation.
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Allah the Exalted said: [Al-Fatihah 1:2] This describes the One being praised with perfection in His essence, attributes, and actions. He is perfect in His essence, in His attributes, and in His actions. Thus, it is describing the One being praised with perfection accompanied by love and magnification. This condition is necessary. The scholars said: Because merely describing someone with perfection without love or magnification is not called praise (hamd), but rather commendation (madh). This is why it occurs from a person who does not love the one being commended but wants to gain something from him. You find some poets standing before the caliphs and offering them great descriptions without loving them, but out of love for the money they give them, or out of fear of them. But our praise of our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, is love and magnification. Therefore, it became necessary that the condition in praise be that it is describing the praised one with perfection, what? With love and magnification.
And His saying: Allah, Mighty and Majestic. This term is a proper name for our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, by which no other is named. It is a proper name that other proper names follow, meaning that other names follow it. For this reason, it is always followed except in a few places, such as His saying, the Exalted: [Ibrahim 14:1-2] In this case, this word is a dependent word following what came before it, and this is rare.
And His saying: The Lord is that in which three descriptions converge: creation, ownership, and management. He is the Creator, Mighty and Majestic, and He is the Manager of all affairs, and He is the Owner of everything. And The scholars said: Everyone other than Allah is from the worlds, and they described them with this because they are a sign of their Creator, Glorified and Exalted is He.
[All] praise is [due] to Allah, Lord of the worlds -
الحمد لله رب العالمينAll praise
الحمدAnd His saying:
for Allah
للهto the path of the Exalted in Might, the Praiseworthy - (2) Allah, to whom belongs whatever is in the heavens
صراط العزيز الحميد الله الذي له ما في السموات ..And His saying:
