No one can put a number on the names of Allah as His names are infinite. However, some are known to us. According to our Grandsheykh, Mevlana Sheykh Nazim, Allah revealed 3,000 of His names to His creation- 1,000 names are known to only to His angels, 1,000 of His names are known only to the Prophets, 300 names in the Torah of Moses, 300 Psalms of David, 300 in the Gospels of Jesus, and 99 of His Most Holy names in the Holy Kuran given to the Jewel of Creation, our Holy Prophet Muhammed, peace be upon him and upon all prophets.
Reciting the Most Beautiful Names of Allah forms part of the Nakshibendi daily dawn prayer ritual. Certain names are also recited in the zikir remembrance ceremony (Hatm Hajegan) conducted in the Nakshibendi tradition.
* The Most Merciful
* Merciful for all of creation, virtuous or sinful, believing or unbelieving
* The Most Compassionate
* The One who has infinite compassion for the believers.
* The King, The Monarch
* The One who completely governs over all things.
* The Holy, All-Pure, All-Perfect
* Far removed from every imperfection or impurity or from anything that would detract
from His glory, and disconnected from every description perceived by the senses and thought
* The Perfect Peace, The Tranquil
* The Flawless, sound of every imperfection or deficiency, peace for His creatures.
He is the Author of Safety, because He has rendered all His creatures safe from unsoundness and
from injustice from Him, the Giver of peace.
* The Trustworthy, The Giver of Faith
* To give security; He who makes mankind secure from His wronging them;
He who makes His servants safe from His punishment
* Believer of His servants on the Day of Rising in the questioning,
or He who will faithfully give His servants what He promised them;
He who has declared in His word the truth of His unity.
* The Safeguarder, The Witness, The Protector
* The One who witnesses the saying and deeds of His creatures.
* the one who watches over things He preserves and guards, Allah is Amin, worthy of trust; Preserver.
* The All-Powerful, The Incomparable. The Mighty
* No one can resist or oppose Allah; often the all-Powerful applies to punishment;
impossible, difficult, free of being menaced;
* Unique and nothing is like Him. The One who overcomes everything, He who resists or withstands so
that nothing overcomes Him; the Incomparable, the Unparalleled. Nothing is beyond His power.
* The Compeller
* He compels His creatures to what He wills of His commands and prohibitions,
and none can oppose Him and none is free of His grasp; the One who repairs and mends;
the One who is inaccessible, the Unattainable, the Supreme.
*The Restorer of the poor to wealth or sufficiency, the Establisher of hearts according to their
natural constitutions which He gave them in their wombs, disposing them to know Him and bear witness to Him,
both the wretched and the happy among them.
* The Supremely Great, The Majestic
* Everything which is not Him is insignificant; He is the Great in Majesty or Most Excellent of beings,
who has rights which no other possesses, the Possessor of power and excellence the like of which no other has;
* He who acts are good, exceeding the good acts of any other; the Majestic; He who disdains having the attributes of created beings;
He who magnifies Himself against the proud among His creatures.
* The Creator
* He who has the power to give existence to creatures; He who brings into existence according
to the proper measure or proportion
* The Originator, not after any pre-existing likeness;
or He who brought things into existence after they had not been in existence.
* The Maker, The Artificer
* He makes creatures distinct from one another;
enabling them to leave non-existence He is the One who transforms sources,
and who creates things not based on any model of likeness.
He created these things free from any fault, and distinguished from from one another by various forms
and outward appearances.
* The Giver of Form
* He gives each being its proper form, determines its composition, dimensions and appearance.
The Former or Fashioner of all existing things who has established them and given to every one of them
a special form and particular manner of being whereby it is distinguished.
* The Forgiving
* The One who does not cease to pardon sins, one after the other.
In the root, means to cover, veil, so to make hidden
* The Absolute Master, All-Conquering
* The Victorious, the Subduer, He who vanquishes, dominates, and governs all,
He who conquers the powerful in this world (the tyrants);
* The Subduer of His creatures by His sovereign authority and power,
and the Disposer of them as He pleases with and against their will; The Overcomer or Subduer of all beings.
* The Ever-Giving
* The Unstinting Giver, the One who gives a lot freely, universally and perpetually and disinterestedly,
not wanting nothing back. He gives instantly.
* The Provider, the Sustainer
*The one who provides nourishment and means of subsistence; the Creator of provisions;
outwardly to the body and inwardly to the heart in the form of gnosis.
* The Opener, The Revealer, The Just Decider
* The Judge, the Conqueror, who opens what is closed between the two adversaries, i.e. decides between them.
Also opening His goodness and mercy, the One who gives victory.
* The All-Knowing, The Omniscient
* The Knower. He who knows what has been and what will be, who ever has known and ever will know what has been
and what will be, from whom nothing is concealed in the earth nor in the heaven,
whose knowledge comprehends all things in the most complete manner. His knowledge is timeless and essential.
* The Contractor, The Restrainer, the Recipient.
* The Seizer, the One who withholds or the Constrictor of the means of subsistence and other things
from His servants by His graciousness and wisdom; the Taker of souls at their death.
* The Expander
* The One who expands, enlarges, amplifies or makes ample and plentiful the means of subsistence;
or who diffuses the souls in the bodies when they come to life.
* The Abaser, The Humbler
* The Abaser of the proud, haughty and insolent; the Abaser of all He desires to abase,
abasing some to the Fire and raising some to the Garden.
* The Exalter, The Raiser
* Great in attributes, Exalter of the degrees of dignity; the Lofty.
He exalts by drawing people near to Him and by granting them good fortune.
* The Honorer, the Exalter
* He gives esteem and might to whomever He wills
* The Abaser, the Degrader, the Subduer
* Degrades whoever he willed, hence there is no one to give him esteem.
* The All Hearing
* The one who hears all, no matter how faint the sound, without any organ of hearing.
* The All Seeing, The Discerning
* The One who sees all things, both the apparent and the hidden without any organ of vision.
* The Judge, The Arbitrator
* Allah judges and there is no reversing His judgement. His judgment is His Word.
* The Just, The Equitable
* He whom desire does not cause to incline or decline so that He should deviate from the right course in judgement.
* The All-Subtle, The All-Gentle, Sagacious, Beneficent
* Allah finds the way to come to end of every difficulty, His actions in the world are subtle, and imperceptible to normal mortals.
* The Invisible; the One who knows subtle and obscure things.
* The All-Aware
* He who has perfect knowledge, not touched by doubt or error, who knows even the most hidden. He knows what has been and what is or will be, He knows the internal qualities of things.
* The All-Forbearing, The Clement, The Gentle
* He is not troubled by the disobedience of rebels, has not precipitateness, does not hasten to punish -
for He has appointed everything to a term to which it must finally come.
* The Great, The Mighty
* The Ever-Forgiving
* The One who is in the habit of forgiving sins and concealing them.
* The Grateful, The Thankful. The Rewarder of Thankfulness.
* He repays people for their good actions. He gives a large reward for few works;
He in whose estimation few works performed by His servants increase and who multiplies His rewards to them.
* The Most High, The Exalted.
* Above and beyond, the High above whom there is nothing higher.
* The Incomparably Great
* Most Great, Great beyond measure, the Majestic. It expresses the perfection of His Essence.
* The Preserver, The Guardian.
* He from whose preservation nothing is excluded, not even an atom in the heavens or the earth;
He who preserves His creatures from oblivion and preserves the heavens and earth.
* The Maintainer The Nourisher
* He maintains creatures by letting them continue to existence through knowledge and power, also the Nourisher.
* The Possessor of power, He who gives to every man his food;
the Preserver or Protector who gives everything its protection as is needful.
He who is well-furnished with power over all things
* The Reckoner
* He who takes account of the actions of man and reckons them,
the One who gives what is sufficient for His servants.
* The Majestic.
* Great in respect of rank or dignity. His order must be obeyed and carried out.
This refers to His attributes. He is great in dignity because of His creating the great things which are
indicative of Him, or because He is too great to be comprehended within limits or perceived by the senses.
* The most generous, the Bountiful. * Worthy of praise, glorious; Generous (in the sense of abundant), Munificent, noble, precious, possessing generosity lacking in any lowness or baseness.
* The Watchful. The Guardian, Keeper, Watcher, Vigilant Observer.
* He observes men so that nothing escapes him or is Hidden from Him.
* The Responder. The Quick to Answer
* The One who answers prayers with gifts and acceptance, The One who responds to prayers.
* The All-Encompassing.
* The Wide-reaching large, vast, spacious. Vast of bounty, generous, The Vast who englobes all, or the Rich.
He gives His servants expanse in their religion and does not oblige
them to so something which is beyond their capacity.
His knowledge encompasses everything, the Generous whose giving encompasses everything.
His forgiveness is vast.
He is gracious to His servants and has no need of their actions.
* The All-Wise, the Judicious.
* Wise, the One who knows and acts well.
Whatever He does is free defect and imperfection.
Allah is free of any unsoundness.
* The Affectionate, The Most Loving.
* The Loving, compassionate to His servants
* The Noble, Great in Dignity
* He who possesses superiority or abundance of good, richness, and superabundance;
He who gives liberally or bountifully.
He who is glorified for His deeds and nobleness and is vast in nobility and generosity.
Honour in respect of the attributes.
* The Raiser, Resurrector
* To re-create; revive; also to send.
The One who Quickens mankind after death. To cause something to be.
* The Witness
* possessing much knowledge with respect to external things, the One from whom nothing is Hidden;
the Faithful in His testimony.
* The Truth, The Truly Real
* The Real, the Really-existing, He whose existence and divinity are true,
the One who creates according to the requirements of wisdom, justice, right, rightness,
the Necessarily-existing by His own Essence, He whose existence is undeniable.
Every reality exists from His essence and nothing has any intrinsic reality except Him.
* The Guardian, the Trustee
* His creation entrust their destinies to Him and put their confidence in Him, the Protector, Guardian, Administrator
* The Strong
* The One with the complete Power.
* The Strong, the Firm
* Firm in His possession of strength and able to enforce His Will. His power is perfect and unrestricted.
* The Protector, The Supporter, The Friend, The Defender
* The Praiseworthy
* The praised One who deserves to be praised.
* The Appraiser
* The knowledge of Allah of quantities. He comprehends everything by His knowledge, nothing escaping Him, small or great.
* The Originator, The Beginner
* The One who originates something without prior model, begins the first time.
* The Restorer, the Resurrector.
* The one who restores what He has already created before and brings it to live again.
* The One Who Gives Life, The Bestower, the Life Giver.
* The Life-Giver or Quickener who makes something alive, to be a living thing;
He quickenes him or endues him with life or revives him. He revives the earth with rain and endues with intelligence.
He makes the hearts alive by the light of knowledge.
* The One who Makes Die
* The Living. The Alive, the Ever Living.
* The One with a life that is unlike our life and is not that of a combination of soul, flesh or blood.
* The Self-Subsistent, The Eternal, The Self Sustaining, The Self-Existing.
* the One who is in charge of things and preserves them and manages them.
Also the One whose power over His creatures is unchangeable and will never end. He requires nothing to exist.
* The Rich, The Resourceful, The Opulent, or The Knowing.
* He who has no wants and lacks nothing.
* The Glorious
* Indicates honour in respect of the Essence
* The One, The Sole, The One whose attribute is unity
* The One in Essence who is without like, the One in attributes besides whom there is no other,
or the One who is not susceptible of division into parts nor of duplication,
the One who has ever been alone without companion.
* Absolute Oneness, The Unique, One with No Other, the Sole.
* He who has ever been one and alone; the Indivisible, He who has no second. It is the closest to the Essence.
* The Everlasting Sustainer of All, The Eternal Lord, Radically transcendent
* The One to whom things aim, and direct themselves, the One to whom one has recourse; that which has nothing hollow - an indivisible Essence
* Being that continues forever, the Creator of everything, of whom nothing is independent,
and whose unity everything indicates, or who takes no nourishment.
* The All-Powerful
* The Capable, The All Powerful
* He who decrees and ordains, it is He who does what He wills.
* The Advancer, The Presenter
* The Postponer or Delayer,
* He who postpones things and puts them in their places, or who puts or keeps back, or He who degrades.
* The First
* The One whose Existence is beyond a beginning.
* The Last
* The One whose Existence is without an end.
* The Apparent, the Exterior, The Manifest
* The Outward, The Ascendant and Predominant over things.
* The Hidden, The Interior, The Latent
* He who knows the inward or intrinsic states or circumstances of thing,
He who is veiled from eyes and imaginations of creatures.
* The Patron, The Protector, The Master
* The Most High, The High Exalted
* The One who is free of imperfection and none has power like His.
The One who has ascendancy over everything by His power,
He who is exalted above the attributes of created things.
* The All-Good, The Source of All Goodness
* Very Benign to His servants or very ample in goodness.
* The Ever-Returning, The Acceptor of Repentance, The Forgiver, The Relenting
* Allah turning to man is by pardoning him; One who returns often to forgiveness towards His creatures who returns
to Him, One who forgives much and saves from acts of disobedience, who reverts from severity to mildness or returns
His favour. The One who returns blessings to those who turn to Him from wrong actions by pure bounty and care.
He accepts the repentance of His creatures.
* The Avenger
* The One who takes vengeance and retribution
* The All-Pardoning, The Forgiver, The Effacer
* The One who effaces, makes disappear by forgiving much. He passes over wrong actions and pardons faults.
* The All-Gentle, The Clement
* The One with intense mercy and who makes suffering to stop.
The One who makes things easier for people than need be, out of tenderness.
* The Master of the Kingdom, Owner or Possessor of the Kingdom, The One who grants sovereignty to whomever He wills.
* Complete Majesty and Generosity
* The One who deserves to be exalted and honored.
* The Equitable
* The One who renders justice.
* The Gatherer
* The Rich Beyond Need
* The One who is All Sufficing, Self-Sufficient, without any need of His creation.
* The Enricher
* The One who gives wealth; The One who is enough and makes all other than Him useless.
He satisfies or contents whom He wills of His creatures.
* The Giver
* The Preventer, The Prohibiter
* The Unapproachable, inaccessible, difficult of access, protected against attack;
The One who prevents, refuses to give, restrains, forbids,withholds.
* The Afflictor, The Distresser
* He who harms, damages, punishes.
* The Helper
* The Light
* The One who illuminates, guide; the One who is manifest, clear.
* The Guide
* The Originator, The Contriver
* The One who first makes something new and original, the One who brings something into existence for the first time,
and not after the similitude of anything existing before it.
* The Abiding, The Eternal, The Enduring
* The One that the state of non-existence is impossible for Him. He will not cease to be.
He is the One whose existence has no end. He is Lasting, Perpetual, Endless.
* The Inheritor
* The One whose Existence remains. The One who inherits and continues after all others have ceased to be;
thus all returns to Him. He is the true owner of all.
* The Correct Guide
* Just, directing to the correct path; He appoints or ordains well what He appoints.
* The Most Patient
* The One who does not hasten to punish, but forgives. He constrains Himself to be patient and endure the misdoings of His creation.
