Allah
The Most GRACIOUS ( AL-RAHMAN)
The Most MERCIFUL (AL-RAHEEM)
The KING ( AL-MALIK)
The ALL-HOLY (AL-QUDDOUS)
The KING ( AL-MALIK)
The ALL-HOLY (AL-QUDDOUS)
The PEACE-GIVER (AL-SALAM)The BESTOWER of Security (AL-MU‟MIN)
The LORD of SUPREME SWAY (AL-MUHAYMEN)
The MIGH TY (AL-„AZIZ)
The COMPELLER (AL-JABBAR)
The Most PROUD (AL-MUTAKABBIR)
The CREATOR (AL-KHALIQ)
The MAKER (AL-BARI‟)!
The BESTOWER of Forms (AL-MUSSAWIR)
The FORGIVER (AL-GHAFFAR)
The SUBDUER (AL-QAHHAR)
The Great GRANTOR (AL-WAHHAB)
The Great PROVIDER (AL-RAZZAQ)
The OPENER (AL-FATTAH)
The OMNISCIENT (AL-„ALEEM )
The WITHHOLDER (AL-QABIDH)
The ENLARGER (AL-BAASIT)
The ABASER (AL-KHAFIDH)
The EXALTER (AL-RAFI„ )
The BESTOWER of Honour (AL-MU„IZZ)
The DEGRADER (AL-MUZILL)
The ALL-HEARING (AL-SAMEE„)
The ALL-SEEING (AL-BASSEER)
The JUDGE (AL-HAKAM)
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The JUST (AL-‘ADL)!!
The BENIGNANT (AL-LATEEF)!!
The ALL-AWARE (AL-KHABEER)!!
The Most FORBEARING (AL-HALEEM)!
The SUPREME (AL-‘AZEEM)!
The ALL-FORGIVING (AL-GHAFOUR)!
The Most APPRECIATING (AL-SHAKOUR)!!
The Most HIGH (AL-‘ALEY)!!
The Most GREAT (AL-KABEER)!!!
The PRESERVER (AL-HAFEEZ)!
The Powerful MAINTAINER (AL-MUQEET)!!
The RECKONER (AL-HASEEB)!!
The LORD of MAJESTY (AL-JALEEL)!!
The GENEROUS (AL-KAREEM)!
The WATCHFUL (AL-RAQEEB)!
The RESPONSIVE (AL-MUJEEB)!
The Vastly BOUNTIFUL (AL-WASI‘)!
The ALL-WISE (AL-HAKEEM)!
The Most LOVING(AL-WADOUD) !!
The Most GLORIOUS (AL-MAJEED)!
The LORD of RESURRECTION (AL-BA‘ITH)
The WITNESS (AL-SHAHEED) !
The TRUTH (AL-HAQQ)
The DISPOSER of Affairs (AL-WAKEEL)!!
The ALMIGHTY (AL-QAWEY)!
The OMNIPOTENT (AL-MATEEN)!
The PROTECTOR (AL-WALIY)!
The PRAISEWORTHY (AL-HAMEED)!
The All-Knowing COUNTER (AL-MOHSY)
The ORIGINATOR (AL-MUBDI’)!!
The REPEATER (AL-MU‘EED)!!
The LIFE-GIVER (AL-MUHYI)!!
The DEATH-INFLICTOR (AL-MUMEET)!!
The EVER-LIVING (AL-HAYY)!!!
The Self-SUBSISTING (AL-QAYUM)!
The Great FINDER (AL-WAJID)!
The LORD of GLORY (AL-MAJID)!!
The ONE (AL-WAHID)!!
The BESOUGHT of All (AL-SAMAD)
The ABLE (AL-QADIR)!!!
The POWERFUL (AL-MUQTADIR)
The ADVANCER (AL-MUQADDIM)!
The DELAYER (AL-MU’AKHIR)!
The FIRST (AL-AWWAL)!!
The LAST (AL-AKHIR)!!
The MANIFEST (AL-ZAHIR)!
The IMMANENT (AL-BATIN)!
The GOVERNER (AL-WALY)!
The Most EXALTED (AL-MUTA‘ALY)!
The BENEFICENT (AL-BARR)!!
The ACCEPTOR of Repentance (AL-TAWWAB)!
The AVENGER (AL-MUNTAQIM)!!!
The EFFACER of Sins (AL-‘AFUW)!
The Most COMPASSIONATE (AL-RA’OUF)!!
The LORD of SOVEREIGNTY(MALIK-AL-MULK)!
The MASTER of MAJESTY and
HONOUR(ZOUL-JALALWAL-IKRAM)!!
The EQUITABLE (AL-MUQSIT)
The GATHERER (AL-JAMI‘)!!
The Self-SUFFICIENT (AL-GHANEY)!!!
The Great SUFFICER (AL-MUGHNY)!
The PREVENTER (AL-MANI‘)!
The Harm-INFLICTOR (AL-DHAAR)
The Benefit-GIVER (AL-NAFI‘)!
The LIGHT (AL-NOUR)!!
The GUIDE (AL-HADY)!
The Great INNOVATOR (AL-BADEE‘)!
The EVERLASTING (AL-BAQY)!
The INHERITOR (AL-WARITH)!!
The DIRECTOR to the Right Way (AL-RASHEED)
The Most PATIENT (AL-SABOUR)
The Speech of Allah is not unknown; the manner is unintelligible; believing in it is a must; and any attempt
at knowing the manner or the modality is a rebellion against the teachings of our ancestors.
To the first group we say: If this viewpoint is true, how then was Gabriel revealing to the Prophet, Allah’s
Prayers and Peace be upon him, the Qur’an? Sometimes, he came to him in the form of a human being and
sometimes the revelation came in the form of the clank of a bell, and this was the most severe, then he
would grasp what he was told. How come then this revelation had been revealed through a voice while the
Companions had been sitting and heard nothing? Moreover, the Prophet, Allah’s Prayers and Peace be upon him,
differentiated between the Speech of Gabriel when he came to him in the form of a human being and the
revelation when it came to him in the form of the clank of a bell.
Furthermore, Allah said, “So We sent this inspiration to the mother of Moses” (QASAS, 7); was this Speech
to the mother of Moses through a voice or was it a mere inspiration as the kind of innate inspiration
mentioned in the verse, “And thy Lord taught the bee to build its cells in hills, on trees, and in men’s
habitations” (NAHL, 68).
A letter is uttered when the two lips are brought together and the tongue moves so that the voice is broken
into letters. Sounds arise from friction of celestial bodies that produces sound waves and this needs an
atmosphere of air because a sound in a vacuum does not exist. That the sound needs a medium to transform
it and that the articulated letters need lips to articulate them can not be applied to Allah, Praise and Glory
be to Him.
To the second group we say: The fact that Allah created Moses and endowed him with perceptions and
audition to enable him to comprehend His Speech that derives its existence from the Existence of His
Exalted Self is something, and the direct Speech is something else. Allah, Praise and Glory be to Him, said,
“..and to Moses God spoke direct” (NISAA’, 164).
Therefore, we must believe that Allah speaks, then we have to entrust the knowledge of the manner and the
modality of that speech to Allah, Who is unequaled. Praise and Glory be to Him, He is Allah.
