Prayers and remembrance in the text
Where the Qur'an has people say رَبَّنَا (rabbana, "Our Lord") as an address to God, and how often it uses the roots of glorification, praise, remembrance and forgiveness. This page describes what the text contains. It does not say what to recite or when.
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Whether a verse is a model prayer depends on who is speaking. Several of the verses below are spoken by people the text itself condemns, for instance on the Day of Judgment. This page finds the words; it does not decide who says them. Open each verse in context before using it, and see the limits below.
"Our Lord" as an address
41 times in 38 verses of 19 surahs. ●
| Verse | Word | Next word | Period | Context |
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What comes next
The lemma of the word right after رَبَّنَا, most frequent first. The lemma is the dictionary form from the Leeds corpus.
| Next word (lemma) | Example | Times |
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Glorification, praise, remembrance and forgiveness
Token and verse counts for four roots, with the lemmas that carry them. A root is wider than the act its name suggests, so read the lemmas.
| Root | Tokens | Verses | Lemmas |
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sbHincludes senses other than glorification, such as swimming or moving along (21:33).Hmdincludes al-Hamid, a name of God, besides the act of praising.*krincludes dhikr as a name for the Qur'an itself, and dhakar, male.gfrincludes al-Ghafur and al-Ghaffar, names of God, besides asking forgiveness.
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How these were found, and what they leave out
- A token counts when its lemma is rabb, it ends in the first-person plural suffix, and the Uthmani text puts the accusative vowel on the ba. ●
- Two tokens with that form are not addresses and are left out: 25:21, "or see our Lord" (the object of a verb), and 35:34, "indeed our Lord" (after inna).
- The forms رَبُّنَا and رَبِّنَا speak about the Lord, not to Him. They occur 17 and 16 times and are not listed here.
- Prayers in other forms are not found by this search: those that begin with another address, or with an imperative alone. The list is the text's "Our Lord" prayers, not all of its prayers.
- Speaker, occasion and meaning are not computed. Hadith is not used on this page.
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The table is also on Export as prayers-vocative.