Blessing · a Light

Blessing comes from the word for a camel kneeling down

Barakah is usually translated as blessing, and it means something more specific: a good that settles, stays, and goes on producing beyond what its size accounts for. The root b r k gives baraka, the verb used when a camel folds its legs and lowers itself to the ground to remain there, and birka, a pool, water that has stopped moving and stayed. Both images are about something coming to rest rather than passing through. The Qur'an uses the noun for what would have been opened on a town from the sky and the earth had its people believed and been mindful. Barakah is the difference between an amount and what it does.

Root b r k, to kneel and to settle

Source · Qur'an 7:96