How is the word "Jaddik" (Your Grandeur), mentioned in the supplication: "O Allah, I ask You by the seats of honor from Your Throne, and the utmost mercy from Your Book, and Your Greatest Name, and Your Most High Grandeur," to be read and explained?
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The word "jadd" (جد) means greatness, majesty, or richness. From this, Allah Almighty says: "And exalted be the majesty (jadd) of our Lord" (Quran 72:3), meaning His greatness or His richness. Furthermore, the supplication mentioned in the question was cited in a that Ibn al-Jawzi mentioned in "Al-Mawdu'at" (Fabricated Hadith).
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