Names of Allâh (SWT)

[Abunuran]

24. Al-Mu`izz: The Honorer



"You honor whomsoever You like and dishonor ..." (3:26).


Allah raises to honor those from whose heart the veil is lifted so that they come to know the beauty of Allah's Presence, who are granted contentment so that as they have no need for the things of Allah's creation, and who are provided strength and support so that they may control their own disposition. Allah gives them immediate dominion. Allah will also raise them to honor in the Hereafter in terms of their gaining access to Allah. Allah will call for them, saying, "Oh soul at peace! Return unto your Lord!" (89:27). The dishonored is the one to whom Allah speaks and says, "But you tempted one another and hesitated and doubted and fantasies deluded you until the command of Allah came to pass and the deceiver deceived you concerning Allah; so this day no ransom can be taken for you..." (57:14). This is the utmost limit of dishonor.

[Abunuran]

25. Al-Muzill: The Dishonorer



"You honor whomsoever You like and dishonor ..." (3:26).


Allah raises to honor those from whose heart the veil is lifted so that they come to know the beauty of Allah's Presence, who are granted contentment so that as they have no need for the things of Allah's creation, and who are provided strength and support so that they may control their own disposition. Allah gives them immediate dominion. Allah will also raise them to honor in the Hereafter in terms of their gaining access to Allah. Allah will call for them, saying, "Oh soul at peace! Return unto your Lord!" (89:27). The dishonored is the one to whom Allah speaks and says, "But you tempted one another and hesitated and doubted and fantasies deluded you until the command of Allah came to pass and the deceiver deceived you concerning Allah; so this day no ransom can be taken for you..." (57:14). This is the utmost limit of dishonor.

[Abunuran]

26. Al-Samî`: The All-Hearing



"Behold! a woman of `Imran said, `Oh my Lord! I do dedicate unto You what is in my womb for Your special service so accept this of me for You are the All-Hearing (Al-Samî` )" (3:35).


The All-Hearing is the quality of Allah's perception from which nothing audible escapes even if it is silent. The All-Hearing is conscious of an ant creeping on a huge boulder in the pitch-dark of night. It hears the praise of those who praise Allah and rewards them, hears the invocations of those who invoke Allah and answers them. The All-Hearing hears without having the usual auditory channels. The hearing of the All-Hearing is not to be compared with that hearing to which ordinary speech can gain access. This hearing is of such a nature that by it the perfection of the names and qualities of all things heard is disclosed. It is beyond our imagination, free of any change that may affect it when audible things occur and above that which is heard by the human ear or some device and instrument. Whoever does not examine this view closely will certainly fall into the snare of anthropomorphism. Therefore, we must be on our guard and watch carefully in this matter.

[Abunuran]

27. Al-Basîr: The All-Seeing



"....Allah is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing (Al-Basîr)" (4:58).


The All-Seeing is a quality which watches and observes things in such a way that nothing escapes its attention including even what is under the earth.


Moreover, it is free of any dependence upon a pupil of the eye, eyelids, or the imprinting of forms and colors upon the eye as human vision is.


The perfection of qualities of visible things is disclosed to the All-Seeing.


This is more clear than what can be grasped by the perception of a sense of sight which is limited to the appearance of things visible.

[Abunuran]

28. Al-Hakam: The Arbiter



"...Now surely His alone as the Master is the Judgment..." (6:62).


The Arbiter is like an arbitrating magistrate and an avenging judge whose decisions no one overturns or corrects.


Among The Arbiter's rulings in respect to the human being are that "the human being has only that for which he strives and that his effort will be seen,"(53:39-40) and that "the righteous verily will meet happiness while the wicked verily will be in hell" (82:13-14).


The Arbiter's ruling regarding happiness for the righteous and misery for the wicked is that Allah makes good or evil, positive or negative, a cause which leads those who practice them to happiness or misery.


In a similar way, Allah makes medication and poison the causes which lead those who take them to recovery or death.


If the meaning of ruling is to arrange causes to their effects, then Allah is the absolute arbiter because Allah is the cause of all causes in general and in particular.


The Divine Decree and predestination (qada' wa qadar) issue from the Arbiter. Causes are directed to the effects in the Arbiter's judgment.


The decree (qada') provides the universal causes--original, fixed, and stable--like the earth, the heavens, the stars, the celestial bodies, and their harmonious and eternal movements which do not change in their orbit and do not cease to exist "until the term prescribed is run" (2:235).


Allah says, "Then He ordained them seven heavens in two days and inspired in each heaven its mandate" (41:12).


The Arbiter applies these causes with their harmonious, defined, planned, and tangible movements to the effects resulting from them, moment after moment.


This is known as predestination (qadar). The ruling of the Arbiter is the initial planning and the first command which is like "a twinkling of the eye" (16:77).


In other words, the decree posits universal and constant causes while predestination applies these universal causes with their foreordained and measured movements to their effects, numbered and defined, according to a determined measure which neither increases nor decreases.


This is how nothing escapes from Allah's decree and predestination.

[Yusuf.]

Assalamu alaikum,


who is the author of these explanations akhi?


Salam

[Abunuran]

Wa Alikum as-salaam wa Rahamtu Allah wa Barakatu,


Yusuf, you know I have been posting these posts (not just this thread) for over 2 years now and you did read them on Jannah before, before I answer your question, I need to know the motive behind your question?


I am just curious as why it took you that long to ask, and why now?


As-salaam Alikum.

[Yusuf.]

Wa Alikum as-salaam wa Rahamtu Allah wa Barakatu,
Yusuf, you know I have been posting these posts (not just this thread) for over 2 years now and you did read them on Jannah before, before I answer your question, I need to know the motive behind your question?


I am just curious as why it took you that long to ask, and why now?


As-salaam Alikum.

Walaikum assalam,


I'm sharing them with others and someone asked me, that's all. And he only asked because he said he loves them so much.


Salam

[Abunuran]

As-salaam Alikum ya Yusuf,


Thank you for your answer.


Al-Hamdu ll'Allah, I can't take credit for it, I am only posting them here and on other forums for the brothers and sisters to read and to expose them to as many people as I can.


Here is where you can always find them in case I never get to finish them insha' Allah:


<b>Names of Allâh</b>



P.S. You will find a lot of other treasures on that site, specially if you can read Arabic (you can, right? Refresh my memory). I advice you and other brothers and sisters who are serious about learning about their Deen to STICK with that site, I can't emphasize this enough ya Yusuf. I know you are educating yourself, stick with it and let your friends know about it.


As-salaam alikum.

[Yusuf.]

As-salaam Alikum ya Yusuf,
Thank you for your answer.


Al-Hamdu ll'Allah, I can't take credit for it, I am only posting them here and on other forums for the brothers and sisters to read and to expose them to as many people as I can.


Here is where you can always find them in case I never get to finish them insha' Allah:


<b>Names of Allâh</b>



P.S. You will find a lot of other treasures on that site, specially if you can read Arabic (you can, right? Refresh my memory). I advice you and other brothers and sisters who are serious about learning about their Deen to STICK with that site, I can't emphasize this enough ya Yusuf. I know you are educating yourself, stick with it and let your friends know about it.


As-salaam alikum.

Jazakallah akhi. I am working on my Arabic Insha'Allah so this will provide me with some good practice!


Salam dear brother