.اَللهُ لَآ إِلٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ لَهُ الْأَسْمَآءُ الْحُسْنَىٰ
.اَللهُ لَآ إِلٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ لَهُ الْأَسْمَآءُ الْحُسْنَىٰ
Ilm ul Asmaa
The Ilm of Names which Allah bestowed is the reason that made Adam (A.S) superior to Malaika (angels)
Let’s Learn more about our Loving and Nurturing Creator’s Names, with all our respect and love.
References:
المقصد الأسنى في شرح معاني أسماء الله الحسنى
أبو حامد الغزالي
Explanation to the Beautiful and Perfect Names of ALLAH, Extracted from Taysir al Karim al Rahman
النور الأسنى في شرح أسماء الله الحُسْنَى
الشيخ أمين بن الحسن الأنصاري
فِقْهُ أسماء الحُسْنَى
عبدالرَّزاق بن عبدالمحسن البدر
Al Azeem - The (Absolutely) Tremendous
Al Azeem is the One who is the ultimate Great among the all existence.
ALLAH is the greatest without any proportions, He is great in every aspect say it is power, wisdom or knowledge or name any quality we know in the world, the absolute greatness and perfection lies in Him only.
ALLAH is owner of great throne and He is the only One who deserve every praise and all the trust.
Al Haleem - The (Most) Forbearing
Al Haleem is the Forbearing, the Tolerant and the Mild.
He is One who is kindly tolerant for all His creatures, how much ever bad they do, He never disown them or stop bearing with them. It is His nature to decide with a wise plan and in that His kindness always overshadows His anger.
Al Haleem is totally aware of the disobedience, rebellious actions and the opposition to His commands, yet anger does not cause Him away from His perfectly controlled plans, neither does he hate anyone at immediate action, nor He rush to take revenge, although He is fully capable of doing that.
Al Khabeer - The Totally Aware
Al Khabeer -is the One Who is fully aware of whatever is hidden in the heavens and on the earth and in between them.
The knowledge (ilm) related to hidden secrets is called 'awareness' (khibra) and the One who possesses it is: 'He who is all aware of everything’, is Al Khabeer.
Al Lateef - The (Most) Subtle
Al Lateef is the One who is kind and soft on His ibad.
He is subtle, He is keen for His creatures to know and take care for even their smallest of needs and listen to even tiny of wishes. Indeed, our loving Rab is Al Lateef.
The meaning of 'Al Lateef' combines gentleness in action with a delicacy of perception. Such perfection in knowledge and action is not possible in anyone except in ALLAH.(the praised and exalted)
Al Adl - The Just
Al Adl is the One who is“The Just” and He is from whom all just actions originated.
He created all the existing things, the physical and the spiritual in justified manner, without any disorders and also kept them in a placement suitable to them.
Than there is the justice which He makes through His orders among all and that balance of justice which He will establish on the day of judgment, all will be done under the authority of “Al Adl”
Al Hakam - The (Decreeing) Judge
Al Hakam is “The Judge” who has the authority in His whole world to give His Decrees and Decisions
We all have to accept His decisions, in this way happily or the other way being unhappy, but there is no refuge from His decisions, except the refuge in His own Mercy.
Al-Hakam is the precise decision maker, the absolutely just Judge Whose decision none can negotiate, nor can appeal His decree except by praying to His Majesty.
Al Baseer - The All Seeing
Al Baseer is the One Who sees everything, everywhere without any hide or restriction.
ALLAH subhanahu taala is Al Baseer who witnesses and sees in such a way that nothing is remote from Him.
He sees even that which we hide in deep down of heart, keep in our intentions or do in our actions all alone. Al Baseer sees all of that clearly without any difference of day or night, light or darkness
As Samee’ - The All Hearing
As Samee’ is the One, from whose hearing power nothing is far away.
He has all the ability to listen each and every word which is talked in this earth and in the heavens, equally and all effectively.
He is all capable to hear the voices of hearts, the words which are never been spoken, He can listen them.
He is the only one Who can listen our cries and tears when no one else is around. As Samee’ listens our silent prayers and our hidden wishes. Not only He listens but He grant us , what is best for us. Alhamdulillah.
Al Mudhill - The Humbling Authority
ALLAH - Al Mudhill is the One who has all the authority and power to make His slaves humble when and how He wills.
He is the only One owner of all the Honour and has control on every dishonour.
When people or nations go against His advices, forget Him, ignore His signs, be away from His book, they make themselves deserve for dishonour in this world and in the next one.
Al Muizz - The Honouring Authority
ALLAH - Al Muizz is the Authority who give honour to whomever He wills.
ALLAH is Only one, gives power, dominion, honorable superiority to His servants.
None of the human can write or make honour for him or her ownself or for anyone else.
All type of honour is totally in Hands of
ALLAH - Al Muizz , He can increase it or decrease it as He wills.
Ar Rafay' - The Raising Authority
Al Rafay is the one who has all the authority to raise His slaves.
Raising in ranks, raising in ilm, raising in designation and raising in wealth, each and every rise is in mighty hold of Al Rafay’
It is definite that Who has this authority must Himself be the Highest One. His Zikr is Higher then everything else, His Book is better than what all we collect and He raised the Zikr of His Rasul Muhammad ﷺ
Al Khafid - The Lowering Authority
Al Khafid is the name of ALLAH having a unique combination of His authority and yet the touch of care and love He has for all His ibaad. It does not have a meaning of disgrace, it is about, humbling down the servants for any of one reason from ALLAH’s hikmah. Ibad ur Rahman are tested through the lowering and raising times in lives. The true believers are those who trust and obey ALLAH in all times.
Al Basit - The Extender (of Abundance)
Al Basit is the One Who has power to extend, make the expansion and spread His Rahmah, Rizq and the Noor of Hidayah.
Basit is the faa’il (doer) of Bast which mean unfolding and spreading at it full measurement of something at ground, like a carpet. Al Basit is the one who spreads the carpet of His Rahmah all over the world. He is the one who gives trial to restrict the hearts and than relief them by his expanding powers.
Al Qabid - The Gripping Authority
Al Qabid is the one who has all the authority to grip. He grips our hearts with His unmatched majesty, He grips and limit the rizq of whoever He plans and allow it again when He likes, He grips our souls when we dies, He is Al Qabid who has made everything in a cycle of gripping and than let it go, the best example is of heart which holds and than release blood , this cycle is the life, created and maintained by our Rab Al Qabid.
Al Aleem - The All Knowing
Al Aleem is the one who knows all.
He knows everything from first layer to the last one, in all aspects and knows perfectly, who can know a thing better than One who created and made from the scratch, So, Al Aleem knows the best about each and everything. By His rahmah He bestowed of us human the gift of ilm. We need to value it and use it for getting closer to Him and to benefit other human around us.
Al Fattah - The Opener
ALLAH -Al Fatah is the one who makes the clear decisions, openely. He is the One who opens up the doors of success in both lives. He opens up the darkness of sorrow, sins and difficulties towards the light of peace, guidance and ease. He is the ultimate opener to all the goodness exists.
Ar Razzaq - The Provider
ALLAH Ar Razzaq is our loving Rab who provide us all the provisions to use without any demands to give back or give rent. He is the one Who nourishes as with variety of delicious foods and nourishes our soul with the ilm. His rizq is never ending as He said in Quran that the rizq of your Rab is the best and never out of stock.
Al Wahhab - The Bestower (of bounties without measure)
Al Wahhab is one of the greatest and most beautiful names of ALLAH. Al Wahhab is the One who’s nature is giving and keep on giving. He is our Rab and our Bestower. He keeps on blessing us with all bounties regardless of we ask or not. As His Rahmah does not have a boundary likewise His giving does not have any limit, SubhanALLAH, Alhamdulillah
Al Qahhar - The (Ever) Dominating
Al Qahhar is the one who ever dominates, ever conquer and ever wins. all the battles. He has power over everything. He has superiority to make all decisions and implement them. Al Qahhar has a protective side in it which is what sweet about this name of ALLAH.
Al Ghaffar - The (kind) Concealer
Al Ghaffar is the one who hide and conceal our dark sins with His kindness very softly. ALLAH-Al Ghaffar who only allows to show what is beautiful and conceals what is ugly. Sins are among the ugly things which He conceals and forgive. Not only that He forgives us again and again.
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