al-MUHYI (the GIVER of LIFE) He Who confers life, gives vitality and health.... Millions of beings are given life and born every day, every hour and every second. They take place through the command, creation and permission of Allah. Allah gives life out of nothing, or, He can revive the dead. It is called ihya, that is, reviving. It is very easy for Allah, Who can create things out of nothing, to revive the dead. al-MUMIT (the TAKER of LIFE) He Who creates the death of a living creature... Allah determines a certain lifespan for every living being that He created. Death is certain for living beings. It is Allah Who creates life and death. . However, death does not mean disappearing and going towards nihility; it is transition from the ephemeral and transient life to the permanent and endless life. al-HAYY (the EVER-LIVING ONE) The living one Who knows everything and whose strength is sufficient for everything... Allah, the Exalted, will not die; He is always alive. It is He Who gives life to living beings. But for Him, there would be no life. He is free from all kinds of temporariness, declining and mistakes. al-QAYYUM (the SELF-EXISTING ONE) He Who maintains the heavens, the earth, and everything.... Allah, the Exalted, created causes for everything to stand until their ordained time. Therefore, everything stands thanks to Allah. al-WAJID (the FINDER) He Who needs nothing; He ho finds whatever He wishes whenever He wishes; He Who is never deprived of the things that are necessary for Him... al-MAJID (the GLORIOUS) He, Whose dignity and glory are great, and Whose generosity and munificence are bountiful... The generosity and favors of Allah towards His slaves that are familiar to Him are too much to express or measure. For instance, He makes them have high ethics and do good deeds and then He praises them due to those good deeds and the distinguished characters they have. He forgives their mistakes and eliminates their bad deeds. al-WAHID (the UNIQUE) He Who is Single… Absolutely without partner or equivalent in His essence, attributes, actions, names and decrees... as-SAMAD (the ETERNAL) He Who is the only recourse for the ending of need and the removal of affliction; the one Who is applied to for needs and requests; the one to Whom all desires and requests are presented... Allah is the unique recourse for every requester. All of the needy people in the world and in the sky turn to Him, give their hearts to Him, open their hands and beg Him. He is the only being Who deserves this. al-QADIR (the ALL-POWERFUL) He Who is able to do what He wills as He wills... al-MUQTADIR (the CREATOR OF ALL POWER) He Who disposes at His will even of the strongest and mightiest of His creatures... Allah has absolute and limitless power over everything. Since He has power over everything, He creates whatever He wants and He creates as much power and strength as He wants in it. al-MUQADDIM (the EXPEDITER) He Who brings forward whatever He wills... Allah created all of the beings. However, He brought forward only those that He selected. He elevated some people over some people by degrees in terms of religion or the world. However, that elevation and selection took place because the slaves deserved it due to their deeds. al-MUAKHKHIR (the DELAYER) He Who sets back or delays whatever He wills... Allah brings forward or delays whatever He wills; He sometimes does not complete the attempts of His slaves when they want and delays them. There are many reasons and wisdoms of it. One should search and try to understand those wisdoms. al-AWWAL (the FIRST) He Who comes before every being, He Who does not have a beginning... Allah is before all of the beings; there is no precedence before His existence. No beginning is ever in question for Him. al-AKHIR (the LAST) He Who has no end... Everything comes to an end and goes towards annihilation; Only He remains. There is no end to His existence. There is no beginning or end for Him. az-ZAHIR (the MANIFEST ONE) He Who is Evident; He Who is known by definite evidence... The existence of Allah is more obvious than everything. Every view that we see, every song that we hear, everything that we hold, everything that our tongue tastes, every meaning that we study on, in short, everything that we have perceived up to now whether inside us or outside witness His existence, oneness and the attributes of perfection. al-BATIN (the HIDDEN ONE) He Who is hidden, concealed; He Who cannot be comprehended through sense organs... The existence of Allah is both evident and hidden. . It is evident because even those without eyes have seen the evidence and signs that inform us about His existence and even the deaf have heard the general witnessing of things about the reality of that high being. It is hidden because we cannot comprehend His essence. However, we know His existence definitely. al-WALI (the GOVERNOR) He Who arranges the affairs of the beings. He Who administers this vast universe and all its passing phenomena all alone... Allah is the only and greatest governor that manages all of the beings. The administration of other governors and sovereigns is through His permission. And their governance and administration are incomplete. Allah’s governance and measures are unlimited, real and genuine. Everything is under His command and will. Nothing happens in His property without His knowledge. al-MUTAALI (the SUPREME ONE) He is exalted in every respect, far beyond anything the mind could possibly attribute to His creatures... For instance, the following is said about a rich man, “This man may turn out to be poor tomorrow” and the man can be poor though he was rich. However, it is impossible to think about such possibilities for Allah. He is free from all kinds of incompleteness, weakness, mistakes and faults. al-BARR (SOURCE of ALL GOODNESS) He Who treats His servants tolerantly, and Whose goodness and kindness are very great indeed... Allah always wants ease and comfort for His slaves; He does not want hardship for them, and He does not like those who cause hardship. He forgives the bad deeds that are committed and covers them. He gives at east 10 rewards for one good deed. If the slave intends to do a good deed but does not do it, He regards it to have been done and gives reward for it. He does not punish bad deeds unless they are committed. at-TAWWAB (the ACCEPTOR to REPENTANCE) He Who accepts repentance and forgives sins... al-MUNTAQIM (the AVENGER) He Who justly inflicts upon wrongdoers the punishment they deserve... Allah has avenge. It is He who breaks the back of rebels, overcomes the murderers and cuts the transgressors down to size. al-AFUWW (the PARDONER) He Who pardons a lot... Allah annihilates sins; he regards them as they have not been committed. That name is similar to the name al-Ghafur. However, there is a slight difference. Ghufran means to cover the sins. Afw means to eradicate them. To eradicate something is better than to cover it. ar-RAUF (the KIND) He Who is very compassionate... The favors, generosity and compassion of Allah to beings especially human beings are too vast and great to express or measure. MALIKU’L-MULK (the OWNER of ALL PROPERTY) Allah is both the owner and the king of all property. He manages His property as He wishes. Nobody has the right to oppose and criticize His management. He gives to whomever He wishes and He takes from whomever He wishes. He needs no partners of helpers in His property. DHU’L-JALALI wa’l-IKRAM (the LORD of MAJESTY and BOUNTY) He Who possesses both greatness and gracious magnanimity... Jalal means greatness and loftiness. All of the superiority that indicates greatness belongs to Allah. Allah is also the owner of great goodness and generosity. The numerous and unlimited bounties that are continuously flow towards the creatures are the grace and grant of Allah. No one has any rights on even the slightest amount of those bounties. al-MUQSIT (the EQUITABLE ONE) He Who does everything with proper balance and harmony. He Who has mercy on the oppressed person and protects him from the oppressor. al-JAMI’ (the GATHERER) He Who brings together what He wills, when He wills, where He wills. He Who brings and holds together the things that resemble or do not resemble to one another and the things that are opposite to one another... Allah is going to bring together again the atoms of our bodies that decayed and dispersed into water, air and soil; He is going to rebuild our bodies. Allah brings together both the things that resemble one another and the beings that are different from one another. He makes them live together. That Allah holds together the opposite things like heat and cold, dryness and humidity is the manifestations of Allah’s name, al-Jami’. al-GHANIYY (the RICH ONE) He Who is infinitely rich and completely independent. He Who does not need anything; He Who does not have to apply to anyone by any means since He has everything with Him. al-MUGHNI (the ENRICHER) He Who enriches anyone He likes... Allah, the Exalted, makes anyone He likes rich, makes him live as a rich person all his life. He makes anyone He likes live as a poor person all his life. He makes some of His rich slaves poor and some of His poor slaves rich. “On the day of Judgment, poverty and wealth will not be accounted for; the patience shown against poverty and the gratitude shown for wealth will be accounted. The question is not to be very poor or very rich; it is to show patience a lot or to thank a lot.” (Yahya bin Muadh) al-MANI’ (the PREVENTER) He Who does not allow something to happen... We have many desires and wishes, some of which are good and some are bad; they appear one after another. They will not end before we die... We keep on working in order to obtain those desires and wishes. Each desire or wish depends on some causes and those causes depend on the command of Allah, who is al-Mani’ and al-Mu’ti. Allah, the Exalted, gives those who wish things if He wants; then, the causes that the person wishes happen at once. That is the meaning of His name, al-Mu’ti. Allah does not allow some wishes. Then, the causes that the person wishes do not take place no matter how hard he tries. That is the manifestation of His name al-Mani’. To prevent the disasters and misfortunes that will affect His slaves and to return them are the manifestations of His name, al-Mani’. ad-DARR (the DISTRESSER) He Who creates things that cause pain and injury... an-NAFI’ (the CREATOR of GOOD) He Who creates things that yield advantages and benefit... It is Allah Who creates useful and harmful things, Who creates the good and evil. Man receives good things and bad things based on some causes but those causes are not the owners and makers of those advantages and harms but veils. an-NUR (the LIGHT) He Who gives light to all the worlds, Who illuminates the faces, minds and hearts of His servants... The light that illuminates all of the things originates from the light of the personality of Allah because He is the light of the skies and the earth. Every particle that the sun illuminates is the proof of the existence of the sun; similarly, the illumination seen in every particle of the universe is the proof of the existence of the Creator of that illumination. al-HADI (the GUIDE) He Who creates guidance. He Who enables the ones that He likes among His slaves to follow good and profitable ways to be successful and to attain what they want. He Who teaches each creature what they need and what they need to do... Guidance is Allah’s showing the ways of goodness and happiness to His slaves to attain their goals through His blessing and generosity and taking them to those ways. Only showing the ways and causes of the way of goodness is called irshad (guidance) and making them walk on that way till they attain their goals is called tawfiq (success). al-BADI’ (the INCOMPRABLE) He Who is without model or match, and Who brings into being realms of amazing wonder... He Who is matchless in terms of His personality and attributes... Badi’ means mubdi, that is, one who invents something that has no model or match. al-BAQI (the EVERLASTING ONE) He Whose existence has no end... That name denotes the “maintenance of existence”. The maintenance of existence means not having a beginning or an end. Allah, the Exalted, is calledal-Qadim because He has no beginning and He is calledal-Baqibecause He has no end. The namesal-Azaliandal-Abadiare similar in meaning. The existence of Allah is not included in the notion of time in terms of maintenance becausetimeis a notion that shows the degrees of the flow towards eternity beginning from the moment when the universe was created. When there was no universe, there was no time, either, but Allah existed. The universe will end; time will end; but, Allah is al-BAQI. al-WARITH (the INHERITOR of ALL) He Who is the Real Owner of all riches when the permanent owners of the riches disappear empty-handed... Allah, the Exalted, is both the real owner and the real inheritor of all property. Both the ownership and inheritance of people are temporary and have a period. The real inheritor of the property is Allah, Who is the owner of all property. On the Day of Judgment, all living beings will die and all of the property will be left to Him. ar-RASHID (the RIGHTEOUS TEACHER) He Who runs all things in accordance with His eternal plan, bringing them with order and wisdom to their ultimate destiny; He Who puts everything in its place; He Who puts everything in order in the perfect way... The namear-Rashidhas two meanings: 1. He Who shows the right and safe path. In this sense, it has the same meaning as al-Hadi. 2. He none of Whose works is vain and useless; He Who is never mistaken in any of His measures; He none of Whose appreciation is reasonless. as-SABUR (the PATIENT ONE) Allah never hurries to do something before its due time. He ordains some time for the things He will do and apply them based on the laws He has imposed when they are due. He does not delay the time He has ordained like a lazy person does. He does not try to do something before its due time like a hasty person does. On the contrary, He does things when they are due.
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