Allahumma
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Allāhumma(Arabic:ٱللَّٰهُمَّ) is a term of address forAllah,theIslamicandArabicterm forone God.It is translated as "O Allāh" and is seen as the equivalent of "Yā Allāh". Some grammarians (such asSibawayh) argue that it is an abbreviation of يا ألله أمّنا بخير (yā ʾallāhu ʾummanā bi-khayr)[1](with the meaning of "O God, lead us in goodness" );[2]others have argued without explanation that the suffix ـ مَّ (-mma) takes the place of yā (O).[3]Muslim scholar Ibn ʿĀshūr, in his explanation of Sūrat ʾĀl ʿImrān, suggests that the word Allāhumma is of Hebrew or ofQaḥṭāniderivation.[4]
Christian usage
[edit]Hafs ibn Albar,a 9th-10th—century Christian Visigothic author inAl-Andalus,translated the BiblicalPsalmsinto Arabic. Rather than using the standard word for God, "Allah", he usedLahummaorAllahummainspired by the Hebrew wordElohim.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ʿImād Zakī al-Bārūdī, ʾAsmāʾ allāh al-ḥusnā: dirāsa taṭbīqīya wa naẓarīya. Cairo (1999): al-Maktaba at-tawfiqiya. (page 106)(Arabic)
- ^"Al M'ani, entry for 'أمّ'".Retrieved2014-11-04.
- ^Sibawayh et alislamweb.net (in Arabic)
- ^tafsīr of ibn ʿĀshūrquran.ksu.edu.sa (in Arabic)
- ^Schippers, Arie "Hafs al-Quti's Psalms in Arabic rajaz metre (9th Century): a Discussion of Translations from Three Psalms (ps. 50, 1 and 2)." Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 86 (1998), page 139.
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