Belief in Allah’s Names and Attributes

Belief in Allah’s Names and Attributes .

To truly be devoted to Allah and to love Allah above all else

imaginable one needs to have knowledge about Allah that goes

beyond the basic aspects of Him being the sole Creator and Sustainer.

Indeed, a believer would yearn to know more and more about Allah.

Of course, Allah is beyond the realm of human experience and

therefore one cannot accurately know details about God unless He

reveals them. Via His revelation and by His grace and mercy, Allah

has revealed a great deal of information about Himself, such that any

truth seeker can know and worship his Lord based on accurate

knowledge.

In fact, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon

him) stated, “Allah has ninety-nine names,.”

Thus, one finds Allah’s names and attributes mentioned throughout

the Quran.

From the Quran and statements of the Prophet (peace and

blessings of Allah be upon him) one can learn the following about

Allah:

Allah is the Most Compassionate, Ever Merciful, Ever

Forgiving, Ever accepting of repentance, Ever Patient, Pardoning .

He is the Generous, the Magnanimous, the Bestower and the Clement. He responds to those who call

upon Him and He is the

Rescuer. He is the Glorious, the Great, the deserver of all Praise, Lord

of all creation, Master of the Day of Judgment and the Judge of the

Final reckoning. He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing, the All-

Knowing and the All-Wise. He is the Ever Strong, Ever Capable,

Almighty. He is the Self-Sufficient, free of any need and provider of

all sustenance. He is the Exalted and the Most High. He is the

Watcher over all affairs.

He is administering the

affairs of His creation, commanding, forbidding, being pleased, being

angered, rewarding, punishing, giving, withholding, honoring,

debasing. He does whatever He wills. He is attributed with every

attribute of perfection and free of even the tiniest amount of

imperfection or shortcoming. Greatly exalted and perfect is He above

all that they associate with Him. Not even an atom moves save by His

will and permission.

This wonderful information about Allah Himself is a great

blessing for humankind. There is no need for humans to try to ponder

over the nature of God while, as stated above, God is above their

comprehension. Instead of deriving fanciful theories about God, God

Himself has revealed sufficient information about Himself that

humankind need not stray or be confused. Furthermore, He has

provided the information in such a way that all can understand it,

even though one can imagine that it is simply the tip of the iceberg of

the depths of the greatness of the Lord and Creator.

See you in the next blog to complete the book.

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