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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NAMES OF

ALLAH
It is narrated in the Hadith that the Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam) said: There are 99 names of Almighty Allah with which we
have been commanded to address our supplications to Him. He
who commits them to memory and rehearses them regularly will
enter Paradise.

YA RAHMANU
The Beneficent
He who gives blessings and prosperity to all beings with out showing disparity.

YA RAHIMU
The Merciful
He who gives blessings and prosperity, particularly to those who use these gifts
as Allah has said, and is merciful to the believers in the hereafter.

YA MALIKU
The Sovereign Lord
He who is the absolute king to the entire universe.

YA QUDDUSU
The Holy
He who is free from all error, absentmindedness, is free from incapability and
from any kind of defect.

YA SALAMU
The Source of Peace
He who frees his servants from all danger and obstruction. He who gives His
greeting to those fortunate people in heaven.

YA MUMINU
The Guardian of Faith
He who places faith in the hearth of His servants, protects those who seek refuge
in Him, and gives tranquility.

YA MUHAYMINU
The Protector
He who watches over and protects all things.

YA AZIZU
The Mighty
The Unconquerable

YA JABBARU
The Compeller
He who repairs all broken things, who completes that which is incomplete, and
who has the ability,
with force, to make people do whatever He wants.

YA MUTAKABBIRU
The Majestic
He who shows His greatness in all things and in all ways.

YA KHALIQU
The Creator
He who creates everything from nothing and creates all things
with the knowledge of what will happen to them.

YA BARIU
The Evolver
He who creates all things in proportion.

YA MUSAWWIRU
The Fashioner
He who designs all things.

YA GHAFFARU
The Forgiver
He who is all-forgiving.

YA QAHHARU
The Subduer
He who is victorious and dominant in a way that He can do anything He wills.

YA WAHHABU
The Bestowed
He who donates all blessings to His creatures.

YA RAZZAQU
The Provider
He who provides all things beneficial to His creatures.
YA FATTAHU
The opener
He who opens the solutions to all problem, and eliminates obstacles.

YA ALIMU
The All-Knowing
He who is all-knowing.

YA QABIDU
The Constrictor
He who constrict.

YA BASITU
The Expander
He who is expander.

YA KHAFIDU
The Abaser
He who diminishes or decreases.

YA RAFI'U
The Exalter
He who uplifts.

YA MUIZZU
The Honoree
He who makes one glorious, gives dignity, and treats one with respect.
YA MUZILLU
The Dishonourer
He who lowers and puts one in a basement and degradation.

YA SAMI'U
The All-Hearing
He who hears everything.

YA BASIRU
The All-seeing
He who sees everything.

YA HAKAMU
The Judge
He who judges and provides what is due.

YA 'ADLU
The Just
The just one

YA LATIFU
The Subtle One
He who knows the delicate meanings of everything. He who creates things most
subtly, which cannot be understood by people, and He who gives blessings to
people in the most subtle ways.

YA KHABIRU
The Aware
He who has knowledge of the most secret parts of everything, and knows their
inner meanings.

YA HALIMU
The Forbearing One
He who is clement.

YA AZIMU
The Great One
He who is magnificent.

YA GHAFURU
The All-Forgiving
He who forgives all.

YA SHAKURU
The Appreciative
He who is grateful and gives rewards for deeds done for Him.

YA ALIU
The Most High
He who is most high.

YA KABIRU
The Most Great
He who is most great.
YA HAFIZU
The Preserver
He who preserves all things in detail, and for a time preserves them from
misfortune and calamity.

YA MUQITU
The Maintainer
He who sustains.

YA HASIBU
The Reckoner
He who knows in detail the account of things people do throughout their lives.

YA JALILU
The Sublime One
He who has wealth, dominion and holiness.

YA KARIMU
The Generous One
He who is generous.

YA RAQIBU
The Watchful
He who observes all creatures, and every action is under His control.

YA MUJIBU
The Responsive
He who responds to every need.

YA WASIU
The All-Embracing
He who has limitless capacity and abundance.

YA HAKIMU
The Wise
He who has wisdom in all order and actions.

YA WADUDU
The Loving
He who loves those who do good and bestows on them His compassion. He who
is the only one who should be loved and whose friendship is to be earned.

YA MAJIDU
The Most Glorious one
He who is most glorious.

YA BA'ITHU
The resurrector
He who gives life to all creatures on the judgment day.

YA SHAHIDU
The Witness
He who is present every where and observes all things.
YA HAQQU
The Trust
He whose existences has no change.

YA WAKILU
The Trustee
He who provides a means to solve all problems in the best way.

YA QAWIU
The Most Strong

YA MATINU
The Firm One

YA WALIU
The Protecting Friend
He who is the Friend of His righteous servants.

YA HAMIDU
The Praiseworthy
He who is the only one to be praised and glorified and thanked by all creatures.

YA MUHSI
The Reckoner
He who knows the number of all things although
they cannot be counted, and knows each of them.
YA MUBDIU
The Originator
He who created for the first time all beings from nothing and without any model.

YA MU'IDU
The Restorer
He who restores all beings.

YA MUHYI
The Giver of Life
He who gives life and health.

YA MUMITU
The Creator of Death
He who created death.

YA HAYYU
The Alive
He is all-knowing and His strength is sufficient for everything.

YA QAYYUMU
The Self-Subsisting
He who holds the entire universe.

YA WAJIDU
The Finder
He who finds whatever He wants in the time He desires.
YA MAJIDU
The Noble
He whose highness is great, who is beneficent, and His munificence is rich.

YA WAHIDU
The Unique
He who is One in his actions, His Names, who has no partner
or equal in His attributes, personality, and orders.

YA AHADU
The One

YA SAMADU
The Eternal
He who is the only being to apply to if one has
any need to be completed or any troubles to be eliminated.

YA QADIRU
The Able
He who is able to do anything in the way He wills.

YA MAQTADIRU
The Powerful
He who is more powerful than any beings.
YA MUQADDIMU
The Expediter

YA MUAKHKHIRU
The Delayer
He who delays whatever He wants.

YA AWWALU
The First
The first, one who has been before and prior to anything.

YA AKHIRU
The Last
The one who will continue forever even,after total annihilation.

YA ZAHIRU
The Manifest
The one who is Evident, through his signs,all over the universe.

YA BATINU
The Immanent
One who is hidden and is permanently pervading the entire universe.

YA WALI
The Governor
He who directs, manages, conducts, governs, measures,
plans every action which happens at any moment in the entire universe.
YA MUTA'ALI
The Most Exalted
He who is higher than any action, manner or condition, and any thought that any
being may have. This Name indicated that Allah is higher than the most evolved
thought of man.

YA BARRU
The Source of All Goodness
He who is tolerant to His servants, to all creatures, and is good to them.

YA TAWWABU
The Acceptor of Repentance

YA MUNTAQIMU
The Avenger
He who punishes wrong doers.

YA 'AFUWU
The Pardoner
The who pardons, and in a manner to obliterate all traces.

YA RA'UFU
The Compassionate
One who is most kind,most merciful. YA MALIK-UL-MULK
The Eternal Owner of Sovereignty

YA DHUL-JALAL-WAL-IKRAM
The Lord of Majesty & Bounty
YA MUQSITU
The Equitable
He who does His work accordingly and in a balanced way.

YA JAME'U
The Gatherer
He who collects things, gathers them, anywhere He wants, at any time.

YA GHANIU
The Self-Sufficient
One who is self-sufficient,rich,free of want.

YA MUGHNIU
The Enricher
One who makes another rich or one who suffices.

YA MANI'U
The Preventer
One who prevents,stops.

YA DARRU
The Distresser
He who creates that which makes one despondent.

YA NAFI'U
The Propitious
He who creates all things which provide goodness and benefit.
YA NURU
The Light
He who provides divine light to the entire universe,
to the face, minds and hearts of His servants.

YA HADIU
The Guide
He who guides, gives success and directs
His servant to do things beneficial to others.

YA BADI'U
The Incomparable
He who creates wonders in the universe without any design.

YA BAQI
The Everlasting
The one who will remain forever.

YA WARITHU
The Supreme Inheritor
He who has everlasting ownership of all things,
Finite man only has temporary ownership,
and at death all creatures have nothings.

YA RASHIDU
The Guide to the Right Path
He who is the guide, with wisdom, to the right path according to His eternal plan.

YA SABURU
The Thoroughly Patient
'Sabr' is impossible to translate in English. It has several meanings and one of
them is "Patience in the sence of being thorough."

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