.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 Haseeb - The (Alone) Sufficient
Al Haseeb is the One who is sufficient alone to His creations. He is the only One who alone is enough for us to live our life.
If we think that we need food, drink, earth, sky, sun, or humans around us, to feel that we need something other than Him, or that He is not all that we need.
But He is the one who supplies all these things and even more whatever we need, by creating food and drink, heavens and earth, so actually He is all we need.
Al Muqeet - The Nourisher
Al Muqeet is the One who nourishes every creature, provides the food for body sustenance, and provides the share of ilm as food for the soul. Al Muqeet is in a way similar to Ar Razzaq but rizq contains many provisions. The unique character of
Al Muqeet is that it is about nourishment-related
provision which includes food and knowledge.
Al Hafeez - The All Preserver
Al Hafeez is the One who has all ability to maintain, preserve and protect. Either it is this whole universe or our life.
The first way is preserving by maintenance, ALLAH the most high is the preserver of the heavens and earth, the angels, the humans and all existing things.
The second way is preserving by safeguarding, ALLAH the most high is preserving by providing safety, from external harms & from internal harms
Al Kabeer - The Grand
Al Kabeer is the One who possesses greatness [kibriya'],
Who is Grand. where greatness is in meaning of the perfection in existence.
ALLAH is having right to be believed as the greatest and most grand than anything else in the life. We have to be very clear about this that nothing in our life can be compared with His words, His love and His command. He is alone and only One on that place.
Al Ali - The Most High
Al Ali is One who is The Most High, highest in all attributes and highest in all the heights. Al Ali is the name of ALLAH that is often used in Quran with name Al Kabeer (The Grand) and Al Azeem (The Greatest). The only One suitable to be said ‘The Absolutely High’ is ALLAH subhanahu wa ta’ala as all others can be compared with each other somehow but He is the Absolute single Creator of everything that exist.
As Shakoor - The (Truly) Appreciative
As Shakoor is the One truly rewarding the deserved reward and even more from His endless bounties. This name has parts of appreciating, praising and rewarding.
As Shakoor is the one who rewards the action of a few good deeds many-fold, and in response to the good actions of a few days, He gives limitless happiness in the life to come.
Human share in this name is being thankful to ALLAH and the fellow humans who do good with us.
Al Ghafoor - The All Forgiving
Al Ghafoor is the one who forgives and covers our sins, mistakes, errors, disobedience in His kind and limitless covering of forgiveness.
ALLAH Al Ghafoor is the One who gives the best of forgiveness who not only forgives but delete our sins on our returning to Him. He not only deletes but He replaces them with the good deeds when He deletes them from our register of deeds. SubhanALLAH
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.
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