171 — It is also said that the phrase “Subḥān Allāh wa bi-ḥamdih” means: “We have declared Him transcendent, for He alone is the One to be praised for that.” You speak in the same way when you say, “I did this bi-ḥamdillāh,” or “We prayed bi-ḥamdillāh,” that is, by His grace and favor, for which He deserves praise. This ultimately returns to the first view, as though one were saying: “We have praised Allah, for He is the One who deserves that we praise Him for it.” And since He is praised for it on account of being the One who commanded and legislated it, whenever we glorify, we glorify “with His praise.”

172 — As the Almighty says: “Allah has indeed bestowed a favor upon the believers when He raised up among them a messenger from their own selves” (Āl ʿImrān 3:164).

173 — Moreover, the interpreter who rendered “And glorify with the praise of your Lord” as “by His command” may have intended the very object of that command; that is, “Glorify Him with what He has commanded you to glorify Him.”

174 — Accordingly, the meaning becomes: declare the glorification He has commanded you—just as you perform the prayer He has commanded you.

175 — Our sayings, “I prayed by Allah’s command” and “I glorified by Allah’s command,” embrace both senses: first, that He ordered it and I performed it by His order, not as an innovation; and second, that I carried it out with the very wording He prescribed, introducing nothing of my own.

176 — As for this verse: “And glorify with the praise of your Lord before the rising of the sun and before…"