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Interactive Guide by Meaning Similarity Groups
*Names that express Allah's Essence, Oneness, and Uniqueness.*
| Name (Arabic) | Meaning | Reflection in Life and Social Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Allah (الله) | The necessarily existent, worthy of all praise, the one and absolute creator. | Reflection: Knowing that everything comes from a single source reinforces the feeling of unity and equality among people. Example: |
| El-Vâhid (الْوَاحِدُ) | The One and Only; who has no equal or like. | Reflection: It provides inner integrity and determination by turning to a single creator, not multiple powers in life. Example: |
| El-Ahad (الْأَحَدُ) | One and only; indivisible in any way, cannot be separated into parts. | Reflection: It teaches to direct the heart and intention only to Allah, to be purified from hypocrisy and ostentation. Example: |
| Es-Samed (الصَّمَدُ) | The One who needs nothing, whom everyone needs. | Reflection: It enables a person to realize their own helplessness, to be purified from arrogance, and to turn to the door of the true refuge. Example: |
| El-Hayy (الْحَيُّ) | The Living, the true source of life. | Reflection: It teaches the sanctity of life and respect for the right to life of every living being. Example: |
| El-Kayyûm (الْقَيُّومُ) | The Self-Subsisting, who sustains all beings, who manages everything. | Reflection: Seeing the perfect order in the universe, one believes that everything is under control and lives with this trust. Example: |
| El-Hakk (الْحَقُّ) | The True, the owner of absolute truth. | Reflection: One makes it a principle to build one's life on truthfulness, staying away from lies, deceit, and injustice. Example: |
| El-Evvel (الْأَوَّلُ) | The First, who has no beginning. | Reflection: It makes one realize that every event and being has a beginning, but beyond all, there is an eternal power. Example: |
| El-Âhir (الْآخِرُ) | The Last, who has no end; He remains even if everything perishes. | Reflection: It reminds of the transience of worldly goals and that what is truly permanent are spiritual values. Example: |
| Ez-Zâhir (الظَّاهِرُ) | The Manifest, whose existence is obvious, apparent. | Reflection: One strengthens one's faith by seeing the evidence of the creator in every being and event around. Example: |
| El-Bâtın (الْبَاطِنُ) | The Hidden, who knows the hidden aspects, whose depth of existence cannot be grasped. | Reflection: It teaches to be concerned not only with the apparent face of events but also with the wisdom behind them, to think deeply. Example: |
| El-Bâkî (الْبَاقِي) | The Everlasting, whose existence is eternal. | Reflection: It encourages chasing lasting goodness and virtues by reminding that everything in the world is temporary. Example: |
| El-Vâris (الْوَارِثُ) | The Inheritor, the sole and true owner of the dominion after everything perishes. | Reflection: It teaches to look at possessions as a "trustee," to move away from greed for property and selfishness. Example: |
| En-Nûr (النُّورُ) | The Light, who illuminates the worlds, who gives light to hearts. | Reflection: It encourages walking on the path of knowledge and wisdom to get rid of ignorance and spiritual darkness. Example: |
*Names that express Allah's creative power, absolute sovereignty over the universe, and might.*
| Name (Arabic) | Meaning | Reflection in Life and Social Examples |
|---|---|---|
| El-Hâlık (الْخَالِقُ) | The Creator, who brings everything into existence from nothing. | Reflection: It teaches to respect and protect everything created. Example: |
| El-Bâri' (الْبَارِئُ) | The Maker, who creates flawlessly and harmoniously. | Reflection: It encourages paying attention to aesthetics and harmony in the work we do. Example: |
| El-Musavvir (الْمُصَوِّرُ) | The Fashioner, who gives the most beautiful form to every being. | Reflection: It ensures accepting physical differences as a richness and avoiding discrimination. Example: |
| El-Bedî' (الْبَدِيعُ) | The Originator, who creates without precedent or example. | Reflection: It encourages innovation, original thinking, and avoiding imitation. Example: |
| El-Melik (الْمَلِكُ) | The King, the absolute and sole owner of the dominion. | Reflection: It gives the consciousness that position and wealth are a temporary trust, increases humility. Example: |
| Mâlikü’l-Mülk (مَالِكُ الْمُلْكِ) | The Owner of All Sovereignty. | Reflection: It ensures not to fall into excessive sadness in the face of worldly losses, knowing that everything will return to its owner. Example: |
| El-Azîz (الْعَزِيزُ) | The Almighty, the owner of honor, the absolute victor. | Reflection: It teaches that true honor and superiority are not in money or position, but in a moral and principled stance. Example: |
| El-Cebbâr (الْجَبَّارُ) | The Compeller, who carries out His will, who mends the broken. | Reflection: It makes one feel the responsibility to be on the side of the weak and oppressed in society, to heal their wounds. Example: |
| El-Mütekebbir (الْمُتَكَبِّرُ) | The Majestic, the sole owner of greatness. | Reflection: It enables a person to know their own limits and be humble, prevents arrogance and bragging. Example: |
| El-Kahhâr (الْقَهَّارُ) | The All-Dominant, who is absolutely victorious over all. | Reflection: It reinforces the belief and hope that oppression and injustice will eventually end. Example: |
| El-Kavî (الْقَوِيُّ) | The All-Strong, owner of infinite power. | Reflection: It teaches not to give up in the face of difficulties and seemingly impossible situations, to take refuge in the real owner of power. Example: |
| El-Metîn (الْمَتِينُ) | The Firm, owner of unwavering might. | Reflection: It ensures clinging tightly to the values and principles one believes in, despite external pressures. Example: |
| El-Kâdir (الْقَادِرُ) | The All-Powerful. | Reflection: It instills the hope that there is no such thing as "impossible," that everything can be possible with effort and prayer. Example: |
| El-Muktedir (الْمُقْتَدِرُ) | The All-Determiner, who has power over all things, who disposes as He wills. | Reflection: It makes one realize that great transformations and events in the universe are by His absolute power, increases submission. Example: |
| El-Mukaddim (الْمُقَدِّمُ) | The Expediter, who brings forward whomever He wills. | Reflection: Instead of being envious, it provides finding peace by knowing that everyone's place is determined by a divine decree. Example: |
| El-Muahhir (الْمُؤَخِّرُ) | The Delayer, who puts back whomever He wills. | Reflection: It teaches to be patient by thinking that there might be wisdom in wishes not being granted immediately. Example: |
| El-Câmi‘ (الْجَامِعُ) | The Gatherer. | Reflection: It encourages uniting instead of separation in society, coming together by seeing differences as richness. Example: |
*Names that express Allah's infinite compassion, forgiveness, and love for His servants.*
| Name (Arabic) | Meaning | Reflection in Life and Social Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Er-Rahmân (الرَّحْمَـٰن) | The All-Merciful, merciful to all creation. | Reflection: It teaches to be compassionate to all created beings. Example: |
| Er-Rahîm (الرَّحِيم) | The All-Beneficent, who will show special mercy to believers in the Hereafter. | Reflection: It develops the consciousness of believer's brotherhood and reinforces the morality of forgiving each other's mistakes. Example: |
| El-Gaffâr (الْغَفَّارُ) | The All-Forgiving, who forgives sins again and again. | Reflection: It encourages being tolerant towards people and giving them a second chance. Example: |
| El-Gafûr (الْغَفُورُ) | The Great Forgiver, whose forgiveness is abundant, who covers sins. | Reflection: It teaches to cover the faults and flaws of others, not to humiliate them in public. Example: |
| Et-Tevvâb (التَّوَّابُ) | The Accepter of Repentance. | Reflection: It ensures appreciating the repentance and effort to change of someone who made a mistake. Example: |
| El-Afûvv (الْعَفُوُّ) | The Pardoner, who forgives even when having the power (to punish). | Reflection: It teaches that forgiving is a virtue even when one is right and has the opportunity to retaliate. Example: |
| Er-Raûf (الرَّؤُوفُ) | The Most Kind, intensely compassionate. | Reflection: It encourages being much more sensitive and compassionate, especially towards the weak, elderly, children, and sick. Example: |
| El-Halîm (الْحَلِيمُ) | The Most Forbearing, very gentle, patient. | Reflection: It teaches to remain calm in moments of anger and to avoid giving sudden reactions. Example: |
| El-Vedûd (الْوَدُودُ) | The Most Loving, worthy of being loved. | Reflection: It encourages establishing warm, love-based relationships with people, animals, and all created beings. Example: |
| Es-Sabûr (الصَّبُورُ) | The Most Patient. | Reflection: It teaches to be steadfast in situations such as life's difficulties, calamities, and the delay in the acceptance of prayers. Example: |
*Names that express Allah's bestowal, provision of sustenance, and generosity to His servants.*
| Name (Arabic) | Meaning | Reflection in Life and Social Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Er-Rezzâk (الرَّزَّاقُ) | The All-Provider, who gives sustenance to all living beings. | Reflection: It teaches to pursue lawful earnings, not to engage in the forbidden due to anxiety about sustenance, and to rely on (Allah). Example: |
| El-Vehhâb (الْوَهَّابُ) | The All-Giver, who gives abundantly without return. | Reflection: It teaches to be generous, not to expect anything in return or thanks when doing a good deed. Example: |
| El-Fettâh (الْفَتَّاحُ) | The Opener, who opens all kinds of difficulties and doors. | Reflection: It keeps alive the belief and hope that there is a way out even in the most hopeless moments. Example: |
| El-Bâsıt (الْبَاسِطُ) | The Expander, who opens, expands when He wills. | Reflection: It teaches to be grateful in times of abundance and expansion, to avoid waste, and to share blessings. Example: |
| El-Ganî (الْغَنِيُّ) | The Self-Sufficient, who is not in need of anything. | Reflection: It reminds not to be spoiled when reaching wealth, that the real wealth is contentment and spirituality. Example: |
| El-Muğnî (الْمُغْنِي) | The Enricher, who enriches whomever He wills. | Reflection: It encourages helping others, saving them from being in need materially and spiritually. Example: |
| El-Kerîm (الْكَرِيمُ) | The Most Generous, whose generosity, grace is abundant. | Reflection: It teaches to do good and offer hospitality in the most beautiful and honorable way. Example: |
| Eş-Şekûr (الشَّكُورُ) | The Most Appreciative, who gives much reward for little deed. | Reflection: It ensures knowing that even the smallest good deed done is valuable and will not go unrewarded. It teaches to thank people. Example: |
| El-Latîf (اللَّطِيفُ) | The Most Subtle, gracious, who knows the finest details. | Reflection: It teaches to be gentle, polite, and delicate towards people; to avoid being rude and offensive. Example: |
| El-Vâsi‘ (الْوَاسِعُ) | The All-Encompassing, whose knowledge and mercy encompass everything. | Reflection: It ensures looking at different thoughts and people with a broad perspective, avoiding narrow-mindedness and bigotry. Example: |
*Names that express Allah's absolute justice, His seeing and watching over everything, and His keeping of account.*
| Name (Arabic) | Meaning | Reflection in Life and Social Examples |
|---|---|---|
| El-Adl (الْعَدْلُ) | The All-Just, owner of absolute justice. | Reflection: It makes acting justly a principle in all areas of life. Example: |
| El-Hakem (الْحَكَمُ) | The Judge, owner of absolute judgment. | Reflection: It teaches to respect a fair decision in disputes and not to take sides. Example: |
| El-Muksit (الْمُقْسِطُ) | The Equitable, who judges with justice and measure. | Reflection: It reminds especially those in managerial and leadership positions of the responsibility to be fair and balanced. Example: |
| El-Hasîb (الْحَسِيبُ) | The Reckoner, who takes account of everyone. | Reflection: It instills self-control and responsibility in a person with the awareness that every deed done will have a consequence. Example: |
| Er-Rakîb (الرَّقِيبُ) | The Watchful, who watches, monitors every moment. | Reflection: It develops the morality of refraining from wrongdoing even when alone (the feeling of ihsan). Example: |
| Eş-Şehîd (الشَّهِيدُ) | The Witness, who is witness to all things. | Reflection: It reinforces the belief that nothing will remain hidden when one suffers injustice or witnesses injustice. Example: |
| El-Mü'min (الْمُؤْمِنُ) | The Giver of Security, faithful to His promise. | Reflection: It makes trustworthiness, keeping one's word, and observing the trust a fundamental principle in society. Example: |
| El-Müheymin (الْمُهَيْمِنُ) | The Guardian, who watches over and protects all things. | Reflection: It instills the consciousness of watching over and protecting those under one's responsibility in the best way. Example: |
| El-Alîm (الْعَلِيمُ) | The All-Knowing, who knows everything completely. | Reflection: It encourages pursuing knowledge and information, avoiding ignorance, and always being open to learning. Example: |
| El-Habîr (الْخَبِيرُ) | The All-Aware, who is aware of all things. | Reflection: It increases the effort to understand the inner workings of things and events, intentions, and hidden details. Example: |
| El-Hafîz (الْحَفِيظُ) | The Preserver, who protects all things. | Reflection: It makes one feel the responsibility to take care of the trust, both materially and spiritually. Example: |
*Names that express changing the degrees, situations of servants and that everything is with a measure.*
| Name (Arabic) | Meaning | Reflection in Life and Social Examples |
|---|---|---|
| El-Hâfıd (الْخَافِضُ) | The Abaser, who abases the arrogant and oppressors. | Reflection: It reminds to be humble while having power and position, to avoid looking down on others. Example: |
| Er-Râfi' (الرَّافِعُ) | The Exalter, who exalts the believers and the humble. | Reflection: It shows that true exaltation and respectability are possible not with position, but with knowledge, morality, and humility. Example: |
| El-Mu'ız (الْمُعِزُّ) | The Honorer, who gives honor and dignity to whomever He wills. | Reflection: It teaches not to bow to injustice and humiliation to protect honor and dignity. Example: |
| El-Müzil (الْمُذِلُّ) | The Dishonorer, who brings humiliation to whomever He wills. | Reflection: It reminds how dangerous it is to humiliate others, mock them, and oppress them. Example: |
| El-Kâbıd (الْقَابِضُ) | The Constrictor, who tightens, constricts when He wills. | Reflection: It teaches to be patient with the awareness that moments of material and spiritual tightness are a test, and to avoid rebellion. Example: |
| Ed-Dârr (الضَّارُّ) | The Distresser, who gives harm, calamity to whomever He wills. | Reflection: It makes one think that calamities and difficulties that happen can be opportunities for spiritual elevation and learning lessons. Example: |
| El-Mâni‘ (الْمَانِعُ) | The Withholder, who prevents whomever He wills. | Reflection: It teaches to trust the divine decree, thinking that there might be good even in something we want very much not happening. Example: |
*Names that express Allah's showing the right path and His infinite wisdom in all His affairs.*
| Name (Arabic) | Meaning | Reflection in Life and Social Examples |
|---|---|---|
| El-Hâdî (الْهَادِي) | The Guide, who guides to the right path. | Reflection: It teaches to take refuge in divine guidance and seek the right way when lost or undecided. Example: |
| Er-Reşîd (الرَّشِيدُ) | The Guide to the Right Path, who guides. | Reflection: It encourages reaching the most accurate result by combining reason, experience, and prayer when making important decisions. Example: |
| El-Hakîm (الْحَكِيمُ) | The All-Wise, whose every deed is most correct. | Reflection: It ensures thinking that there is wisdom and good behind events that are not understood at first glance or seem negative. Example: |