The Quran

إِنَّ الَّذينَ يَتلونَ كِتابَ اللَّهِ وَأَقامُوا الصَّلاةَ وَأَنفَقوا مِمّا رَزَقناهُم سِرًّا وَعَلانِيَةً يَرجونَ تِجارَةً لَن تَبورَ

Ali Unal

Those who recite God’s Book (and, thereby, glorify, praise, and exalt God, and declare His absolute Oneness),¹ and establish the Prayer in conformity with its conditions, and spend out of what We have provided for them (in God’s cause and for the needy), secretly and openly, hope for a trade which will never perish.

Glorifying God means believing, acknowledging, and declaring that God is absolutely free from, and exalted above, having any defects or attributes particular to the creation, such as begetting and being begotten, dying, feeling any need and, therefore, having partners or helpers. In short, glorifying means knowing and declaring what God is not and cannot be. Praising God means believing, acknowledging, and declaring that God has all attributes of perfection and, therefore, deserves praise, thanks and worship. In other words, praising means knowing and declaring what and who God is, and mentioning Him as such, with the attributes of perfection that are exclusively His. Exalting God means believing, acknowledging, and declaring that God is infinitely and absolutely great and there can be none comparable with Him, and that He is infinitely beyond what we can conceive of Him. We glorify, praise, and exalt Him and declare His absolute Oneness after the daily Prayers.