3 ms·

Alhamdulillah is not some recently coined alternative, it has been one of Arabic’s stock expressions for centuries and centuries. It is what Arabic-speaking peo

Alhamdulillah is not some recently coined alternative, it has been one of Arabic’s stock expressions for centuries and centuries. It is what Arabic-speaking people (and not just Muslims) have always said after something good happens. It is what Muslims customarily say as they get up from eating a meal, or oddly enough, after they sneeze.

alephnerd 3y ago
> is not some recently coined alternative, it has been one of Arabic’s stock expressions for centuries and centuries Yep! But a lot of people nowadays will use Alhamdulillah in scenarios where you could just as well use "Allah u Akbar" now. There definitely was a linguistic shift over the past few decades. I also don't hear people saying "Inshallah" as much anymore. > after they sneeze "Bless you"
- OfSanguineFire 3y ago
  This site[0] claims that the use of Alhamdulillah after sneezing goes back to, among others, a Hadith tradition that Allah likes sneezing and dislikes yawning. So, rather different from the Christian use of “bless you”, and I think that a lot of people outside Islam would still agree with the “oddly enough”. I’m surprised that you hear inshallah less nowadays. It would be interesting to get some hard data on that. Inshallah is the one phrase that has never left even my Arab acquaintances who are proudly atheist. [0] https://islamqa.info/en/answers/2750/why-do-muslims-say-al-hamdu-lillah-after-they-sneeze https://islamqa.info/en/answers/2750/why-do-muslims-say-al-h...
  - AskSocialist 3y ago
    [flagged]
- elashri 3y ago
  What are the scenarios that you can Alhamdulillah instead of "Allah u Akbar" that is being used today by Muslims? I'm asking as a Muslim who never do that and have never heard anything like this claim. So it would be interested to know if you have different experience. It is obvious when to say both, but many people here are considering themselves experts on Islam don't even know the basics.

alephnerd 3y ago

> is not some recently coined alternative, it has been one of Arabic’s stock expressions for centuries and centuries Yep! But a lot of people nowadays will use Alhamdulillah in scenarios where you could just as well use "Allah u Akbar" now. There definitely was a linguistic shift over the past few decades. I also don't hear people saying "Inshallah" as much anymore. > after they sneeze "Bless you"

OfSanguineFire 3y ago
This site[0] claims that the use of Alhamdulillah after sneezing goes back to, among others, a Hadith tradition that Allah likes sneezing and dislikes yawning. So, rather different from the Christian use of “bless you”, and I think that a lot of people outside Islam would still agree with the “oddly enough”. I’m surprised that you hear inshallah less nowadays. It would be interesting to get some hard data on that. Inshallah is the one phrase that has never left even my Arab acquaintances who are proudly atheist. [0] https://islamqa.info/en/answers/2750/why-do-muslims-say-al-hamdu-lillah-after-they-sneeze https://islamqa.info/en/answers/2750/why-do-muslims-say-al-h...
- AskSocialist 3y ago
  [flagged]
elashri 3y ago
What are the scenarios that you can Alhamdulillah instead of "Allah u Akbar" that is being used today by Muslims? I'm asking as a Muslim who never do that and have never heard anything like this claim. So it would be interested to know if you have different experience. It is obvious when to say both, but many people here are considering themselves experts on Islam don't even know the basics.