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               120  International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 7 (23): 107-140, Summer 2020
                  The  word  Rabb  originally        for  Muslims,  and  also  he  is
               means the owner of something          someone who must be obeyed,
               who  proceeds  to  train  and         as it mentioned above to be one
               improve it.                           of rabb’s meanings.
                  This  word  is  absolutely            The  chosen  equal  for  this
               applied to Allah, alone, and if it    phrase  suggested  by  Google
               is applied, in Arabic, for other      translate is: “in the Lord of”.
               than Him, it is certainly used in
               a  possessive  form,  as  rabb-ud-                Table 4
               dar  the  landlord.  In  any  case,   Alfalaq          Number     Percent
                                                     the dawn
                                                                      9
                                                                                 15.78%
               the  word,  itself,  conveys  the     the daybreak     7          12.28%
               meaning  of  fostering,  bringing     the Daybreak     6          10.52%
               up and training.                      Daybreak         6          10.52%
                  There     is   another    idea     the Dawn         5          8.77%
               mentioned in Majma'-ul-Bayan          daybreak         3          5.26%
               that  says:  Rabb  means  an          the rising dawn   2         3.5%
               important person whose orders         day-break        2          3.5%
                                                     the rising day
                                                                                 3.5%
                                                                      2
               are  obeyed;  However,  Rabb          Divinity         1          1.75%
               covers  such  a  wide  meaning        Dawn             1          1.75%
               that  other  languages  lack  an      the dawn and the  1         1.75%
               equivalent     of   the    word.      incipient gleam
               (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basmala)   rising day   1          1.75%
                  Considering  the  Torah  and       the Daybreak,    1          1.75%
               the Bible, and comparing them         (Literally: the
               with the Holy Quran it can be         Splitting “of
                                                     the day”)
               concluded  that  the  sense  and      the Rising       1          1.75%
               feeling  that  they  have  toward     Dawn
               the word “Lord” is as same as         the nascent      1          1.75%
               our  feeling  and  impression         dawn
               about the word Rabb.                  daybreak (or     1          1.75%
                                                     Who brought
                  Moreover,     according     to     the
               Longman Dictionary, Lord is a         universe into
               title  of  God,  used  when           existence with an
               praying,  exactly  like  rabbana      explosion
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