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Surah Fatir — 35:34

وَقَالُوا۟ ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ ٱلَّذِىٓ أَذْهَبَ عَنَّا ٱلْحَزَنَ ۖ إِنَّ رَبَّنَا لَغَفُورٌ شَكُورٌ

Wa qaalul hamdu lillaahil lazeee azhaba 'annal hazan; inna Rabbanaa la Ghafoorun Shakoor

Derler ki: "Bizden üzüntüyü gideren Allah'a hamdolsun. Doğrusu Rabbimiz bağışlayandır, şükrün karşılığını verendir."

And they will say, "Praise be to God, who has taken all sorrow away from us. Indeed, our Lord is truly forgiving, deeply appreciative —

Reflection

The first words spoken inside the garden are praise, and they reach for relief before they reach for any pleasure. Arabic puts the definite article on that grief, which sent commentators looking for which grief exactly was meant: the fear of death, the reckoning, the long road. Shakūr runs the ordinary direction of the word backwards, since the gratitude here belongs to the one who was served.

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