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Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Allah has ninety-nine Names, one-hundred less one; and he who memorized them all by heart will enter Paradise." To count something means to know it by heart.}} | Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Allah has ninety-nine Names, one-hundred less one; and he who memorized them all by heart will enter Paradise." To count something means to know it by heart.}} | ||
Some apologetic sources (including Wikipedia) claim that according to the hadith, there are ''at least'' 99 names. But the hadith doesn't say "at least". It says simply ninety-nine (تِسْعَةً وَتِسْعِينَ) and even adds that it's one hundred minus one, which seems to emphasize, that it is exactly 99 and not 100 or more. And the hadith also says that who memorizes all these names would go to paradise - such a task would be hard in the time of Muhammad, considering that in that time the ummah was [[Muhammad and illiteracy|illiterate]]. And even today, as we'll see, it seems impossible to find | Some apologetic sources (including Wikipedia) claim that according to the hadith, there are ''at least'' 99 names. But the hadith doesn't say "at least". It says simply ninety-nine (تِسْعَةً وَتِسْعِينَ) and even adds that it's one hundred minus one, which seems to emphasize, that it is exactly 99 and not 100 or more. And the hadith also says that who memorizes all these names would go to paradise - such a task would be hard in the time of Muhammad, considering that in that time the ummah was [[Muhammad and illiteracy|illiterate]]. And even today, as we'll see, it seems impossible to find exactly 99 names. | ||
==The popular list== | ==The popular list== | ||
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|25||المذل||''al-mudhil''||The Giver of Dishonor||The Humiliating <ref>https://www.almaany.com/en/dict/ar-en/%D9%85%D8%B0%D9%84/</ref>||{{Quran|3|26}} (it's not there)|| | |25||المذل||''al-mudhil''||The Giver of Dishonor||The Humiliating <ref>https://www.almaany.com/en/dict/ar-en/%D9%85%D8%B0%D9%84/</ref>||{{Quran|3|26}} (it's not there)|| | ||
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|26||السميع||'' | |26||السميع||''as-samii''||The Hearing||The Hearing||{{Quran|2|127}}|| | ||
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|27||البصير||''al-baseer''||The All-Seeing||The Seeing||{{Quran|4|58}}|| | |27||البصير||''al-baseer''||The All-Seeing||The Seeing||{{Quran|4|58}}|| | ||
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|30||اللطيف||''al-lateef''||The Subtly Kind||The Kind||{{Quran|22|63}}|| | |30||اللطيف||''al-lateef''||The Subtly Kind||The Kind||{{Quran|22|63}}|| | ||
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|31||الخبير||'' | |31||الخبير||''al-khabeer''||The All-aware||The Informed <ref>https://www.almaany.com/en/dict/ar-en/%D8%AE%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1/</ref>||{{Quran|6|18}}|| | ||
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|32||الحليم||'' | |32||الحليم||''al-haleem''||The Forbearing||The Forbearing||{{Quran|2|235}}|| | ||
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|33||العظيم||''al-'azeem''||The Great||The Great||{{Quran|2|255}}|| | |33||العظيم||''al-'azeem''||The Great||The Great||{{Quran|2|255}}|| | ||
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|34||الغفور||'' | |34||الغفور||''al-ghafoor''||The Much Forgiving||The Forgiving||{{Quran|2|173}}||The list already contains Ghaffar, which means the same. | ||
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|35||الشكور||'' | |35||الشكور||''ash-shakoor''||The Grateful||The Thankful||{{Quran|35|30}}|| | ||
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|36||العلى||''al-aliyy''||The Sublime||The Exalted||{{Quran|4|34}}|| | |36||العلى||''al-aliyy''||The Sublime||The Exalted||{{Quran|4|34}}|| | ||
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|37||الكبير||'' | |37||الكبير||''al-kabeer''||The Great||The Great||{{Quran|13|9}}||Not ''akbar'' (اكبر) - the Greatest?? | ||
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|38||الحفيظ||''al-hafeez''||The Preserver||The Preserver||{{Quran|11|57}}|| | |38||الحفيظ||''al-hafeez''||The Preserver||The Preserver||{{Quran|11|57}}|| | ||
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====Some names are not actually beautiful==== | ====Some names are not actually beautiful==== | ||
Some of the names, like "The Harmer", even with apologetic translation by Muslims, doesn't seem to be beautiful. | Some of the names, like "The Harmer", even with apologetic translation by Muslims, doesn't seem to be beautiful. | ||
====Some names are strange==== | |||
Why is one of his names "The Believer" (المؤمن)? | |||
====Duplicates==== | |||
Why is the verse 55:27 considered as an instance of both "ذو الجلال والإكرام" and "الجليل"? And what is the difference between الغفور and الغفار? And what about "مالك" and "مالك الملك"? | |||
====Are they all really names?==== | |||
Arabic doesn't use capital letters for names. So a noun could be understood both as a proper noun or as a regular noun. For example the Arabic name Abdullah (عبد الله) could be understood as the name "Abdullah", but it could also be understood literally "slave of god". In the same way some of the "names of Allah" could be simply his characteristics, not names. In the same way we can understand "الله الرحيم" as both "Allah, The Merciful" and "merciful Allah". That is also a reason why finding the names in the Quran by ijtihad is practically impossible. | |||
====Some names are not actually mentioned in the Quran==== | ====Some names are not actually mentioned in the Quran==== | ||
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'''Literal:''' And they cheated/deceived and Allah cheated/deceived, and Allah (is) the best (of) the cheaters/deceivers.<ref>[{{Reference archive|1=http://iknowledge.islamicnature.com/quran/surah/3/lang/englishliteral/|2=2011-08-25}} 3. Ali-Imran - The Family Of 'Imran (سورة آل عمران) - Revealed in Madinah (English: Literal)] - IslamicNature, accessed August 25, 2011</ref>}} | '''Literal:''' And they cheated/deceived and Allah cheated/deceived, and Allah (is) the best (of) the cheaters/deceivers.<ref>[{{Reference archive|1=http://iknowledge.islamicnature.com/quran/surah/3/lang/englishliteral/|2=2011-08-25}} 3. Ali-Imran - The Family Of 'Imran (سورة آل عمران) - Revealed in Madinah (English: Literal)] - IslamicNature, accessed August 25, 2011</ref>}} | ||
We could find many other names of Allah in the Quran. | We could find many other names of Allah in the Quran. The list doesn't even contain the word "Allah" (الله). | ||
==Other lists== | ==Other lists== | ||
As we've seen, the popular list based on the weak hadith is wrong on many levels. [https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%89#%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%81%D9%8A_%D8%A5%D8%AD%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%A1%D9%87%D8%A7 Arabic Wikipedia article] contains more than 10 different lists by various Islamic scholars. Some of those lists even contain the name "Best of deceivers" (خير الماكرين). The lists together contain 276 names of Allah and we can assume that there are other lists with even more names. | As we've seen, the popular list based on the weak hadith is wrong on many levels. [https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%89#%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%81%D9%8A_%D8%A5%D8%AD%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%A1%D9%87%D8%A7 Arabic Wikipedia article] contains more than 10 different lists by various Islamic scholars. Some of those lists even contain the name "Best of deceivers" (خير الماكرين). The lists together contain 276 names of Allah and we can assume that there are other lists with even more names. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||