So to God belongs all praise the attribution to Him of what is beautiful in words for fulfilling His promise regarding the deniers; Lord of the heavens and Lord of the earth the Lord of the Worlds the Creator of all that has been mentioned ‘ālam ‘world’ denotes everything other than God; it is in the plural ‘ālamīn because of the different types of beings in them; rabbi ‘Lord’ in the last clause is a substitution for the previous ones.
