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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Its status in the religion is high, its importance is great, and no one can worship Allah in the most perfect manner

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The Shaykh : The author said: "Its status in the religion is high", meaning that the status of faith in the names of Allah and His attributes is high.
"And its importance is great, and no one can worship Allah in the most perfect manner until he has knowledge of the names of Allah the Exalted and His attributes, so that he worships Him with insight. Allah the Exalted said:
And to Allah belong the best names, so invoke Him by them ولله الأسماء الحسنى فادعوه بها
[Al-A'raf 7:180]
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Note that "to Allah" is placed before "the best names"; the fronting of the predicate indicates restriction to Allah and no one else. "The best names" indicates that all of His names are beautiful. "Best" is a superlative adjective; its masculine form is "ahsan," meaning the most beautiful, such that nothing is more beautiful than them. Other than Allah, names may be beautiful, may not be beautiful, or may have no meaning, but the names of Allah, yes, are the best names for Allah.
Second, his saying:
the best reward الحسنى
indicates that there is no possibility of any deficiency in the names of Allah, because if there were a possibility of deficiency, they would not be the best.
Source alathar.net

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