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ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ
We say it in every rakʿa: “Lord of the worlds.” Ibn Kathir explains that al-ʿālamīn is the plural of ʿālam, and an ʿālam is everything that exists other than Allah: every kind of creation in the heavens, on land and in the sea. He also reports narrower views, such as Ibn ʿAbbās's “the jinn and mankind”.