The Greatest Name of Allah (Mighty and Majestic)
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Question:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. The questioner asks: What is the Greatest Name of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) by which, if one asks, He answers?
Answer:
The most likely candidate is the one mentioned in the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Al-Baqarah 2:255] The Ever-Living, the Sustainer. This is the most likely to be the Greatest Name.
Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) has concealed it. His names are many, and among them is the Greatest Name by which, if one calls upon Him, He answers. He (Glorified and Exalted is He) has concealed it so that the servant would call upon his Lord with all His names and attributes, and not limit himself to the Greatest Name, even if he knew it.
So he should invoke Him by all of His names, all of the great names of Allah, and any of them could be the Greatest Name. He should invoke Him by all of His names, whether he knows them or has them in mind, and he should not limit himself to just one of them.[Al-A'raf 7:180] So invoke Allah by all of His names; whatever names come to your mind, invoke Him by them. That is why He said: [Al-Isra 17:110] Yes.
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. The questioner asks: What is the Greatest Name of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) by which, if one asks, He answers?
Answer:
The most likely candidate is the one mentioned in the saying of Allah the Exalted:
Allah - there is no deity except Him, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer of [all] existence.
اللَّهُ لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ الْحَيُّ الْقَيُّومُAllah (Exalted and Majestic is He) has concealed it. His names are many, and among them is the Greatest Name by which, if one calls upon Him, He answers. He (Glorified and Exalted is He) has concealed it so that the servant would call upon his Lord with all His names and attributes, and not limit himself to the Greatest Name, even if he knew it.
So he should invoke Him by all of His names, all of the great names of Allah, and any of them could be the Greatest Name. He should invoke Him by all of His names, whether he knows them or has them in mind, and he should not limit himself to just one of them.
And to Allah belong the best names, so invoke Him by them.
وَلِلَّهِ الْأَسْمَاءُ الْحُسْنَىٰ فَادْعُوهُ بِهَاSay, "Call upon Allah or call upon the Most Merciful. Whichever [name] you call - to Him belong the best names."
قُلِ ادْعُوا اللَّهَ أَوِ ادْعُوا الرَّحْمَٰنَ أَيًّا مَّا تَدْعُوا فَلَهُ الْأَسْمَاءُ الْحُسْنَىٰ
Source
مجالس رمضان 1431هـ - 03 — alfawzan.live (19:04)
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