We are the people of Alhamdulillah

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

We pray at the least 32 rakaat every day and many of us pray even more. And each rakaat starts with “Alhamdu Lillahi Rabbil aalameen.”

 Alhamd is a powerful word. It means both praising and thanking. Arabic has separate words for both praise and thanks (gratitude) but alhamd combines both of these. It is a praise which arises out of gratitude. 

It is very profound in its meaning. It means that for everything we know about Allah, we praise Him and we thank Him. It means that there is nothing which comes from Allah for which we may say “it isn’t the best” or “I am not feeling gratitude for it”. 

If we understand this one word, it will be enough for us. If we understand it and then when we stand before our Rabb, our Master, we are telling Him that we love Him, we feel gratitude to Him, we are thankful for what He gave us. We admire Him through the life around us. We bow down in humility when we see His greatness. This Hamd will flow through our entire being, right till the very last atom. 

And then salaah will be over and we will be faced with realities of life once again. The hearts will break, the tears will flow, the sadness will creep up and the shadows will loom. 

And so Allaah will call us in front of Him again. And we will again say “Alhamdulillaah” and the scales will be balanced once again. 

The cycle will go on, but through all this we will surface because we are a people of “Alhamdulillah”. We are not made for negative thinking and broken hearts. 

سبحانك اللهم و بحمدك نشهد ان لااله الّا انت نستغفرك و نتوب اليك