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The root of the word is R-B-B (رـ
ب ـ ب), which has the following
meanings/ implications:
1. It
implies possession, owning, command and authority.
2. It also
implies, rearing, fostering, bringing up, nourishing (e.g. a
child), taking good care, acting as a guardian (e.g. to the
utmost term of youth).
3. It also
implies bringing a thing into completion in degrees.
4. It also
implies increasing, correct disposal and completion (of a
benefit or benefaction)
5. It also
implies putting an affair into right or proper place,
adjusting it, arranging it, and rightly disposing it,
managing, conducting, regulating and establishing it firmly.
6. It also
implies seasoning and scenting
RABB = The
Lord = The Owner = The Ruler = The Master = The Rearer = The
Nourisher = The Sustainer = The Maintainer = The Regulariser
= The One who fosters, rears, nourishes and nurtures things
in such a manner as to make them attain one stage after
another until they reach their goal of completion = = The
One who regulates, cherishes, sustains, completes,
accomplishes and bring things from their earliest state to
that of highest perfection = The One who brings things into
existence, frames laws under which He propounds the shape
which things must assume and the ratio and proportion in
which various ingredients must combine with each other,
regularizes different stages through which things have to
pass on their way to perfection and completion, and sees to
necessary provisions for them in their journey.
رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ
[1:2]
رَبُّ
السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا
[38:66]
رَبُّ الْمَشْرِقَيْنِ وَرَبُّ الْمَغْرِبَيْنِ
[55:17]
قُلْ
أَغَيْرَ اللَّهِ أَبْغِي رَبًّا وَهُوَ رَبُّ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ
[6:164]
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