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Allah
The Name of Allah
Allah is Al-ism Al-a'zam, the greatest name which contains all the divine attributes and is the sign of the essence and cause of all existence. Allah does not resemble in any way any of His creation. 'Allah' is Allah's name only. Nothing else can assume this name or share it.
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Ar-Rahman
The Compassionate
He is the One Who wills mercy and good for all creation, at all times. He pours upon all creation infinite bounties.
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Ar-Raheem
Most Merciful
He is the source of infinite mercy and beneficence, and rewards with eternal gifts the one who used his bounties for the good.
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Al-Malik
The Sovereign
He is the owner and ruler of the entire universe, visible and invisible, and all of creation from before the beginning and after the end.
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Al-Quddus
The Holy One and One Who is free from all blemishes
He is the most pure one, devoid of all blemish, shortcoming, weakness, heedlessness and error.
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As-Salaam
The Giver of Peace or One who is Immuned from all Distresses
He is the one Who saves the believing servants from all dangers, bringing them peace, blessings and security of Paradise.
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Al-Mu'min
Giver of Peace
He is the illuminator of the Light of faith in hearts. He is the Comforter and the Protector of the ones who take refuge in Him.
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Al-Muhaymin
The Giver of Protection
He is the Protector and the Guardian. He is the one Who sees to the growth of His creation, leading them where they are destined to go.
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Al-A'zeez
The Mighty
He is the victorious one Whom no force can overwhelm. There is no strength in this universe that can stand before His will.
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Al-Jabbaar
The Overpowering Lord
He is the repairer of the broken, the completer of the lacking, the One who can enforce His will without any opposition.
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Al-Mutakabbir
The Self-Glorious
He is the greatest, Who shows His greatness in everything, on all occasions.
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Al-Khaaliq
The Creator
He is the one Who creates from nothing, creating at the same time the states, conditions and sustenance of all that He has created. He establishes how, when and where creation will take place.
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Al-Baari
One who gives life
He is the one Who orders His creation with perfect harmony - not only each thing within itself, but everything in accordance with everything else.
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Al-Musawwir
Fashioner of Shapes
He is the one Who, without using any model, shapes everything in the most perfect shape.
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Al-Ghaffaar
Exceedingly Forgiving
He is the one Who accepts repentance and forgives.
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Al-Qahhaar
One who has control over all things
He is the ever-dominating one, Who has surrounded all His creation from without and within with His irresistable power. Nothing can escape Him.
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Al-Wahhaab
The Giver of all things
He is the donor of all, without conditions, without limits, without asking benefits or return, giving everything to everyone, everywhere, always.
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Ar-Razzaaq
The Sustainer and Provider
He is the Sustainer. Sustenance is needed to maintain the creation. (Both physical and spiritual sustenance.)
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Al-Fattaah
Remover of difficulties and Giver of decisions
He is the opener and the solver, the easer of all that is locked, tied and hardened.
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Al-A'leem
The All Knowing
He is the one Who knows all. He knows what has happened, what is happening and what will happen from the beginning to the end.
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Al-Qaabid
The Straightener of Sustenance
He is the one Who constricts. All existence is in the power of Allah. The life on this planet is a test for us, but Allah does not test his servants above their abilities.
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Al-Baasit
The Extender of Rizq
He is the one Who releases abundance, joy, relief and ease after difficulties. These are manifestations of His attribute Al-Baasit.
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Al-Khaafid
He is the Abaser. The One Who Humbles and Lowers
Allah most high is the one Who raises his creatures to honour and fame and Who can cast them down to be the lowest of the low.
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Ar-Raafi'
The Exalter
Allah most high is the one Who raises His creatures to honour and fame and who can cast them down to be the lowest of the low.
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Al-Mu'iz
The Giver of Honour
He is the one Who honours and the one Who humiliates.
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Al-Mudhil
The Giver of Dishonour
He is the one Who honours and the one Who humiliates.
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As-Samii'
The All Hearing
He is the one Who hears all - that which comes from the lips, passes through the minds, is felt by the hearts, the rustling of leaves in the wind, the footsteps of ants and the atoms moving through the void.
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Al-Baseer
The Seer or One Who Sees All Things
He is the one Who is all-seeing. He sees all that has passed, all there is and all there will be until the end of time.
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Al-Hakam
Maker of Immutable Judgements
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Al-Adl
The Just
He is the absolute justice. Justice secures peace, balance, order and harmony. Allah the Just is the enemy of tyrants.
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Al-Lateef
Most Affectionate or Knower of Innermost Secrets
He is the most delicate, fine, gentle, beautiful one, He is the one who knows the finest details of beauty. The finest of His beauties are hidden in the secrets of the beauties of the soul, wisdom, and divine light.
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Al-Khabeer
All-Knowing
He is the one who is aware of the hidden inner occurences in everything. He is the one whose cognisance reaches the deepest, darkest, hidden corners of His kingdom, where neither human intelligence nor His angels can penetrate.
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Al-Haleem
The Clement
He is forebearing in the punishment of the guilty. He waits, giving time to the sinner to realise his guilt and ask forgiveness in order that He may forgive him rather than punish him.
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Al-A'dheem
The Great
He is the Greatest on the earth below And in the heavens above, in the realms where our sight cannot reach and of which our minds cannot conceive. He is the absolute and perfect greatness.
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Al-Ghafoor
Forgiving
He is the most forgiving one. He veils our faults from the eyes of the other men, from the angels that relieves us from the suffering of continual remembrance of our faults.
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Ash-Shakoor
Highly Grateful
He is the one who repays a good deed with a much greater reward. Thankfulness is to return good with good.
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Al-A'li
Most High
He is the highest one. He is higher than the whole of the created universe. His nearness and fairness and His being high cannot be measured by the limits of human intellect.
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Al-Kabeer
Most Great or Infinite
He is the greatest, whose greatness stretches from before the beginning until after the end. There is no differences for Him between the creation of an atom and the infinite-seeming universe. This is His grandeur as much as we can understand it. He is greater than that.
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Al-Hafeedh
The Protector
He is the one who remembers all that was and all that is, keeping in His divine protection all that there will be.
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Al-Muqeet
The Giver of Sustenance and Strength
He is the nourisher of all creation. Allah creates the nourishment of each of His creates before he creates them. No one can take away the nourishment destined for each element of the creation.
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Al-Haseeb
The Reckoner or One Who Suffices for Everyone and Everything
He is the one who takes account of all and everything that His creation does or is subjected to.
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Al-Jaleel
Glorious or One With an Exalted Position
He is the lord of majesty and might. His might and His greatness, His eternity bears no resemblance to any energy, matter or time.
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Al-Kareem
Benevolent
He is the generous one. His greatest generosity is His mercy, through which He forgives when he could punish.
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Al-Raqeeb
The Caretaker
He is the one who watches everything, always. This scrutiny of every detail in the existence of all creation is in part protective.
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Al-Mujeeb
The Answerer of Duaas
He is the one who responds to all the needs of his servants. Allah is closer to his creatures than they are to themselves. He is not any closer to a saint than He is to you or to a mustard seed.
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Al-Waasi'
The Lenient
He is the limitless vastness, whose knowledge, mercy, power, generosity, and all other beautiful attributes are infinite.
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Al-Hakeem
The Wise
He is the perfectly wise, in His knowledge and in His deeds. There is no doubt or uncertainty in His knowledge, nor does it have an end.
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Al-Wadud
Most Loving
He is the one who loves His good servants. He is the only one who is worthy of love.
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Al-Majeed
Most Venerable
Allah most high is glorious and majestic in the whole of His creation and beyond. No hand reaches Him, no power can touch Him, yet He is closer to His servants than their own souls. His state is pure perfection. His acts are pure wisdom.
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Al-Baai'th
The Resurrector of the Dead
He is the raiser from the dead. Allah will give life back to all creation on the day of judgement.
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Ash-Shaheed
Omnipresent
He is the one who witnesses all that happens everywhere at all times.
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Al-Haq
The Truth
Allah is the truth, whose being is ever unchanged.
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Al-Wakeel
The Provident
Allah is the faithful and ultimate trustee. Men think they are able to do, but He is the one that does everything. He can replace everything in the universe, but nothing can replace Him nor can stand on it's own without being dependent on Him
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Al-Qawi
Almighty
Allah is the most strong one, the inexhaustible. He possesses all strength. He can create a billion universes with the same ease with which He creates a blade of grass.
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Al-Mateen
The Invincible
Allah is perfect in His strength and in His firmness. None can be saved from this strength, no force can oppose it and nothing can weaken it.
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Al-Waliy
The Patron
Allah is the protecting friend of His servants. He eliminates their difficulties and gives them guidance, peace and success in their affairs in this world and the hereafter.
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Al-Hameed
The Praiseworthy
Allah is the most praiseworthy, All that exist praise Allah with their tongues, with their actions, or simply by their existence. He is the only one who is worthy of devotion, respect, thankfulness and praise.
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Al-Muhsi
The Keeper of counts
Allah is the possesser of quantitive knowledge. He sees and knows everything in its reality. He knows the number of all existence in the universe down to the number of breaths exhaled and inhaled by each of His creatures.
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Al-Mubdi
The Originator
Allah is the originator of all. He creates without model or material.
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Al-Mu'eed
One Who has the Power to Create Again.
Allah is the restorer of the things He has created and destroyed.
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Al-Muhyi
The Giver of Life
Allah is giver of life to things without life. Allah is the one who has created life and who has created death, none else can do that.
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Al-Mumeet
The Giver of Death
Allah is the creator of death. All who are alive will certainly die. Man is made of a combination of the flesh and the soul. The body is temporal, the soul is eternal.
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Al-Haiy
The Everlasting
Allah is the perfectly alive and ever-living one. Allah is cognisant of all, and all acions are His. All that is known is within His knowledge. All existence is always comprehended in His action.
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Al-Qayyum
The Sustainer of Life
Allah is the ever self-existing one upon whom the existence of all depends. His existence depends on none other than Himself.
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Al-Waajid
The All-Perfect
Allah finds and obtains whatever He wishes whenever He wishes. It is even superfluous to use the word "find" because all is in His presence at all times.
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All-Maajid
The All-Excellent and the One With Veneration
Allah is the most glorious, who shows infinite generosity and munificence to those close to Him.
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Al-Waahid
The One
Allah is One. He has no equal, none like Him nor any partner in His essence, in His attributes, in His actions, in His orders, or in His beautiful names.
Al-Ahad
The One Unequalled
He is the unity in which all names, attributes and their relations to any and all are united.
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As-Samad
Free From Want
Allah is the satisfier of all needs, and all is in need of Him. He is the sole-recourse; the only place of support where one may go to rid oneself of all trouble and to receive all that one needs through the blessings of this name.
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Al-Qaadir
The All-Powerful
Allah is the all-powerful who does what He wills the way He wills. He created the universe by Himself, from nothing, with neither materials nor model. He said "BE" and it became.
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Al-Muqtadir
Powerful
Allah is the one who creates all power and has total control over all power. Allah bestows power upon things on earth and in heaven, and uses them in accordance with His all-pervasive wisdom and will.
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Al-Muqaddim
One Who Causes Advancement
Allah brings forward whomever He wills. Allah advances the chosen among His creation, bringing some above and ahead of others.
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Al-Muakhkhir
One Who Causes Retardation
Allah is He who leaves whomever He wills behind, and delays advancement.
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Al-Awwal
The First
Allah is the first. There is none like Him. His firstness means that there is none prior to Him, that He is self-existent, that all comes from Him and that He is the cause of all that became.
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Al-Aakhir
The Last
Allah is the last. As He has no beginning, He has no end. He is eternal. He is the last in the sense that the circle of existence begins and ends with Him.
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Adh-Dhaahir
The Obvious
Allah is the manifest one. Allah most high is hidden from those who seek to see by means of their senses, but He is apparent to those who seek to know Him by the wisdom and reason that Allah has bestowed upon them.
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Al-Baatin
The Latent
Allah is the hidden one. His existence is both manifest and hidden. To truly know the creator is not possible because the knowledge, the mind, the understanding of the created one are limited.
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Al Waali
One Who Exercises Responsibility Over All Things
Allah is the sole manager and governor of the whole creation.
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Al-Muta'ali
Far Above the Attributes of the Entire Creation
Allah is the supreme one. His greatness grows. As He gives from His inexhaustible treasures, His riches increase. As the need of His creation increase, His bounties increase.
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Al-Bar
The Good
Allah is the perfect doer of good. All good and bounty come from Him. He loves for His servants only good, comfort and ease.
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At-Tawwaab
The Oft- Returning
Allah is He who constantly turns man to repentance.
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Al-Muntaqim
One Who Takes Retribution
Allah is the great avenger. Allah punishes those who persist in revolting, raving in their unconsciousness and egotism, creating disharmony, tyrannizing Allah's servants and His creation.
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Al-A'fuw
One Who Pardons
Allah is the forgiver, the eliminator of sins. He does not often punish the ones who deny, the ones who revolt. He accepts their recognition of their sins as repentance, He erases their sins.
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Ar-Rauf
The Kind
Allah is all clement. In spite of His ability to see our sins, of His being just, of His being able to punish, the fact that He chooses to forgive proves His infinite mercy and clemency.
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Maalik-ul-Mulk
Possessor Of Sovereignity
Allah is the eternal owner of His kingdom. He shares neither the ownership nor the power, government nor guardianship of the universe with anyone.
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Dhul-Jalaal-
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Majestic and Benevolent
Allah is the Lord of Majesty and bounty. There is no perfection that does not belong to Him nor any blessing or honor that comes from other than Him. Allah is the owner of all majesty.
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Al-Muqsit
The Just
Allah is the one who acts and distributes in justice and fairness. How harmonious and balanced is the creation: all the beauties in heaven and earth - mountains, seas, sunsets, flowers - and also the eyes to see.
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Al-Jaami'
The Assembler
Allah is the gatherer of whatever He wishes, wherever He wishes. Allah has gathered together within this universe spaces, galaxies - stars, earths, seas, plants and animals, things whose nature, size, shape and colour are different.
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Al-Ghani
Free From Need
Allah is the rich one who is self-sufficient. His essence and attributes have no relationship to anything else. Someone whose existence and perfection depend on another needs to earn that existence. Only Allah needs not, neither does he need to earn.
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Al-Mughni
Supplier of Needs to Others
Allah is the enricher. He renders whomever He wishes rich and whomever He wishes poor.
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Al-Maani'
The Hinderer
Allah is the one who averts harm from His creation.
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Ad-Daar
One Who can Cause Loss
Allah is the creator of the harmful and the evil as He is the creator of the good and beneficial. He has also taught us to opt for the good and escape the evil. He has given us the power of discrimination, given us a will and freedom to choose.
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An-Naafi'
One Who Confers Benefits
Allah is the creator of good. Allah has created man as the best of His creation and He has bestowed upon him gifts which render him unique and superior to the rest of creation.
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An-Nur
The Light
Allah is the light that is shed upon the whole creation, making it apparent. That light is the light that brought existence out of the darkness of non-existence.
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Al-Haadiy
One Who Gives Guidance
Allah is the one who creates guidance, leading His servants to good, beneficence and the satisfaction of their needs.
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Al-Badi'
The Deviser
Allah is the Originator of the creation, having created it without model or material. He does not need previous knowledge to think, to first investigate, to figure things out. Everything He creates is a wonder since He originated it from nothing.
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Al Baaqiy
the Eternal
Allah is the everlasting one whose existence in the future is forever. He has neither beginning nor end. The creation will end, and time with it. But Allah the everlasting one will still exist.
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Al-Waarith
The Supporter of All or One Who Remains Alive Even After Everyone or Everything Dies
Allah is the ultimate inheritor, to whom everything is left after its temporal possessors are gone. It is He who exists after all existence disappears, it is He to whom all existence returns.
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Ar-Rasheed
One Who Guides Along the Path of Virtue or One Who Loves Virtue and Piety.
Allah is the righteous teacher who ordains righteousness for all creatures. In His wisdom He leads all matters to their finalty in a perfect way and order.
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As-Sabur
Most Forebearing
Allah is the most patient one. In His creation as in His actions, in His dealings with His creation, nothing is either bigger or smaller, better or worse, earlier or later than it is determined for it to be.
O Allah, for the sake of your Beautiful Names and for the sake of the ones on whom your Beautiful Names are manifest, lead us on their path. Let us see your attributes everywhere without, and cleanse the mirror of our hearts that perchance we may see your beauty reflected within.' Ameen.
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