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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Distinguishing between the names specific to Allah and those that may be applied to creation

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Question:
He says: May Allah reward you. Is there a specific rule by which one can distinguish between the names specific to Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) and the names that are permissible to apply to creation?

Answer:
There are names specific to Allah by which no other is named, such as Allah. No one else is named by this, so it is not permissible for anyone to be called Allah. As for the other names, such as al-Aziz (The Mighty), al-Hakim (The Wise), al-Sami' (The All-Hearing), and al-Basir (The All-Seeing), these are used for the created beings, and Allah also named the created beings with them. The angel was named a king (malik)
and We made him hearing and seeing.فَجَعَلْنَاهُ سَمِيعًا بَصِيرًا
[Al-Insan 76:2]
This is regarding the created beings. There are attributes that exist in the created beings, but there is a difference between the attributes of the created and the attributes of the Creator in terms of modality. The modality of Allah's attributes differs from the modality of the attributes of the created beings. Yes.
Source نعمــة الأمـن — alfawzan.live (53:39)

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

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