Aashiq Hill – The Excellent Names
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The beautiful names of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
The
the implications thereof
and how we can inculcate and embody
these beautiful names of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
But before we start with the actual names
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
how do we understand as Muslims the names
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentions in the
Quran and the names of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala mentioned by the prophet
in the sunnah.
Rule number 1, the names of Allah
are tawkifi.
Tawkifi means
they are set. We cannot reason and extrapolate
names of Allah
I cannot call Allah
because Allah describes himself as
that Allah is angry with them, that Allah
is
the one who is angry.
I cannot call Allah because Allah says
that Allah is Al Makil, the plotter, the
one who plots.
Because these names are not Al Husna, they
are not beautiful. And Allah
is only named with names that are al
Husna, the most beautiful.
So the names of Allah
are tawkafi.
They are set. We take these names from
the Quran, we take these names from the
sunnah.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in the Quran,
he reminds
us that the greatest sin or one of
the greatest sins in that we that we
as Muslims can perpetrate is
It is to do those things and to
speak about Allah which we have no knowledge
about.
So when it comes to the names of
Allah
we restrict ourselves
to use only those names of Allah mentioned
in the Quran.
And we restrict ourselves to use only those
names mentioned in the sunnah of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
Number 2, we understand
the concept.
We understand what Rahma is. We understand what
maghfirah and forgiveness is,
but we can never understand the reality of
these names of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
because that is knowledge that Allah has kept
away from me and you.
Number 3,
Allah's names are the most beautiful
and should only be understood in the most
perfect manner.
We do not compare Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
to Allah's creation.
As Allah
says,
To Allah belongs the highest similitude.
Allah also says,
That there is nothing like Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
and Allah is the all hearing,
the all seeing.
Number 4,
no creation of Allah
can name themselves
with one of the names of Allah with
the definite article Al, with The.
No person can call himself
Arrahem.
A person might be called Rahim.
A person might be called Latif,
but he cannot name himself Al Latif, the
most kind,
Ar Rahim, the most merciful.
Number 5,
any name of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that
is found in a dua of the Quran
and Sunnah, then this is a name of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Number 6,
the names of Allah with the same root
letters
but they come in different forms
are considered
separate names of Allah.
Example,
the verb,
means to forgive.
From this one verb, we have many names
from amongst them,
Al Ghafar,
Al
Ghafoor,
Al Ghafir.
These are all separate names of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
Number 7,
many names of Allah
in the Quran
come in pairs
and we consider them
beautiful when they come together.
Al Muqaddim
and Al Mu'akhir.
The one who brings forward and the one
who takes back. The one who brings forward
and the one who delays.
Al Aabib
and Al Baasit.
The one who restricts
and the one
who expands.
These names are understood
together.
And when they are understood together, they are
alhusna.
They are beautiful.
Number 8.
Many of the names of Allah in the
Quran,
they appear in pairs.
They come together in the Quran.
Many of the names of Allah, they come
together in pairs and there's a certain science
behind those names. Al Ghafoor has one meaning,
Al Rahim has a separate meaning, but when
they are brought together,
they create and they bring about a third
meaning.
Number 9,
Allah has
more than 99 names.
There is a very very
beautiful hadith
in which
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
Allah has
99
names.
And then the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam
continues and says, illa wahida,
except one which is the name Allah.
The prophet then says, man a saha,
whomsoever
memorizes them,
whomsoever
understands them, whomsoever
practices upon them, whomsoever
embodies them and loves
these names of Allah,
dakulaljannah.
This person will enter Jannah.
But does this hadith mean
that there are only 99 names of Allah?
No. In another hadith, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam in a dua,
in another hadith, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
in a dua, he made dua to Allah
and from amongst
the things that Allah, that the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam said was,
O Allah, I ask You by every name
which you have kept to yourself in the
unseen.
From this hadith, we learn that Allah has
more than
99 names.
Many scholars state
that the names of Allah, by doing a
count in the Quran and the Sunnah,
is between
155100
names of Allah. But these 99 names are
the grandest,
the most beautiful,
the most sublime
names of Allah
May Allah
make us of those who love these beautiful
names of Allah
May Allah
make us of those who embody
these names of Allah.