The ruling on writing names attributed to Allah on badges and entering the restroom with them
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The questioner: The badge that is worn by some owners of institutions; I saw one that had the name 'Abd al-Rahman on it, and its owner told me that he enters the restroom with it—may Allah protect you.So he said: If Abd al-Rahman, the whole person, enters the restroom, the same person named Abd al-Rahman, the whole person, enters the restroom, and the other thing is writing "In His Name, the Exalted" on papers that may fall in the street and be stepped on by people, is there anything wrong with "In His Name, the Exalted" ?The Shaykh: First: his statement that everyone is 'Abd al-Rahman is correct. But is your name 'Abd al-Rahman? Are you in the state of being written as 'Abd al-Rahman? Tell him this, or that you have a head and legs and are not formed by diacritical marks or grammatical cases. This is a baseless argument and there is no issue. He himself does not believe it is a valid argument, but there is no doubt that it is better not to enter with it. However, the common practice is that badges are hidden, and hidden things do not cause harm. This is one point.
The second: As for writing "In His Name, the Exalted" , it is not permissible; in fact, writing "In His Name, the Exalted" is forbidden because it deviates from what is in the Qur'an, which is "In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy" . Also, perhaps the one who says "In His Name, the Exalted" is a polytheist who wants a close friend of Allah, or an imam from the imams whom he believes to be imams, and he writes "In His Name" meaning the name of the imam he considers an imam. So the pronoun here has no clear referent. It is obligatory to write "In the Name of Allah." We have not seen anyone write "In His Name, the Exalted" except the people of innovation, because they may believe that their close friends or imams are the ones who manage the universe, so they seek blessing in their names and say "In His Name, the Exalted" without specifying the referent of the pronoun so that the matter does not become clear.
The second: As for writing "In His Name, the Exalted" , it is not permissible; in fact, writing "In His Name, the Exalted" is forbidden because it deviates from what is in the Qur'an, which is "In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy" . Also, perhaps the one who says "In His Name, the Exalted" is a polytheist who wants a close friend of Allah, or an imam from the imams whom he believes to be imams, and he writes "In His Name" meaning the name of the imam he considers an imam. So the pronoun here has no clear referent. It is obligatory to write "In the Name of Allah." We have not seen anyone write "In His Name, the Exalted" except the people of innovation, because they may believe that their close friends or imams are the ones who manage the universe, so they seek blessing in their names and say "In His Name, the Exalted" without specifying the referent of the pronoun so that the matter does not become clear.