Subhan'Allah
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Subhan'Allah (Arabic سبحان الله) is an Arabic phrase often translated as "Glorious is God."
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 God pure, and it is bound to its original word (sabh, meaning void) as if he said, I verily absolve God 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 God 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 God from those polytheistic deeds that they do."
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).
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