[我们省略了辞典中出现的大量用法示例，这些示例在原文中由毛拉·马杜迪作了详尽的列举。省略的原因是，这些例子对英语读者未必有兴趣，而且除了某些吹毛求疵、专门挑毛病的人之外，也并不重要，他们只是因为说话的人是毛拉·马杜迪而故意找茬。阿布·阿萨德] 这个词的三个词根字母是（r、b、b），其基本含义是“抚养、培育”。如果我们考虑该词根及其各种派生词的更广泛含义，就会发现它具有以下几层意思：

[We have omitted the numerous examples of usage, as one finds them in the lexicon, and which Maulana Maududi gave in the original in great detail because they may not interest the English reader end in any case do not matter except for some crass doubter someone bent on finding fault simply because it is Maulana Maududi who is saying something. Abu Asad] The three radicals of this word are the letters (r, b, b) and the basic meaning is to bring up. If we take into account the wider meaning of the root word and its various derivatives, we find that it has following connotations:

• 指养育、抚养、培育或滋养他人的人，或负有完成其中全部或其中一项或多项职责的人。

• One who brings up, rear, fosters or nourishes, or is responsible for doing all or one or more than one of these.

• 保护者，庇护者。

• Guardian, patron.

负责监督或执行改进工作的人。

• One who supervises or is responsible for carrying out improvements.

•指处于中心或焦点位置的人，他自己聚集人群，或人们自发地围绕在他身边。

• One who occupies a central or focal position, who himself gathers people round himself of his own or round whom people gather out themselves.

• 领袖、首领、头目，或主人。

• Leader, head, chief, or lord.

• 一个其言被遵从、其统治地位或至高权威得到承认、并有权支配人与事物的人。

• One whose word is obeyed, and whose supremacy or over lordship acknowledged, and who has authority to dispose of men or things.

• 所有者。

• Owner.

大师。

• Master.

在《古兰经》中，这个词用于以上所有含义：有时只用其中一种含义，有时用两种，有时用多种，甚至全部五种，以下例子将对此加以说明：

In the Qur'ān the word is used in all of the above meanings, sometimes in only one sense, sometimes is in two, and sometimes in more, or even all the five, as the following examples will show:

(i) 尤素福(约瑟)说(当波提乏的妻子企图引诱他时):"真主禁止!他是我的主,他把我安顿得很好。"[许多注释家将此处的这个词理解为"主人",指波提乏。但我认为并非如此。依我的理解,代词"他"应与其最近的先行词"真主"相关联,我认为把它硬扯到一个根本未被提及的人身上,是对文意的不必要的牵强。穆杜迪]我不会做忘恩负义的罪人。

(i) And Yousuf (Joseph) said (to Potiphar’s wife, when she tried to seduce him):‘May God forbid! He is my Rabb [Many commentators have taken this word, as used here, to mean ‘master; v and to refer to Potiphar. I, however, hold differently. According to my thinking, the pronoun ”who” is related to its immediate antecedent, “Allah” (God) and I think it is unnecessary straining of the sense to seek to relate it to a person who is not mentioned at all. A. A. Maududi]Who has provided handsomely for me’ (and I shall not behave as an ingrate sinner.

(《尤素福》12:23)

(al-Yusuf 12:23)

“（你们所崇拜的这些神明）它们是我的敌人；唯独安拉，万世的主，不是这样。祂创造了我，引导我，供给我饮食，我患病时使我痊愈。”（诗人章 26:77-80）

“(These gods whom you worship) they are enemies to me; not so Allah, the Rabb of all the worlds, Who created me, Who gives me guidance, Who gives me food and drink, and Who, when I am ill, restores me to health. (ash-Shu’araa 26:77-80)

(iii) 你们所拥有的一切恩惠都来自真主；当灾难降临你们时，你们便向祂哀求；然而，当祂除去你们的苦难后，你们中便有人把其他的神灵与你们的主并列（以为它们也对你们的给养或健康有所贡献）。（《蜜蜂》16:53-54）

(iii) And there is not any good thing except that it comes from Allah, and whenever any mishap befalls yen, it is to Him you turn in your distress; but when He has removed it, there are those among you who associate others with their Rabb (as having also contributed to your provision or health). (an-Nahl 16:53-54)

(iv) 请问他们（先知啊）：难道我要寻求安拉以外的主宰吗？而祂是万物的主宰。……（al-An’aam 6:165）

(iv) Ask them (O’ Prophet): Should I seek any rabb other than Allah and He the Rabb of all creation?.... (al-An’aam 6:165)

(v) 祂是东方与西方的主，除祂之外别无应受崇拜的神，所以你们应当把祂当作你们一切事务的唯一依靠与裁决者。（穆载密勒 73:9）

(v) He is the Rabb of the East and the West; there is no deity but He, and so take Him as the ultimate Disposer and Arbiter of all your affairs. (al-Muzzammil 73:9)

(vi) ……祂是你们所有人的主，你们终将回归于祂。

(vi) …He is the Rabb of all of you, and it is unto Him that you shall return.