Names and Attributes of Allaah

QUESTION: Would it be disbelief if you describe Allah by calling Him an artist. Due to the creation being beautiful.

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09 Oct

ANSWER: This is disrespecting Allah and not permissible to describe Him with other than He had described Himself

QUESTION: What does “Allahu Akbar” mean?We know that Allah doesn’t have a body like the creation.We have body ,so we can compare how big or small we are.If we say Allah is big, doesn’t this mean that we are saying that Allah has a body like the creation?So if I say “Allah doesn’t have a body,so being big or small is applicable for Allah,he is not like the creation” is it okay?

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13 Sep

ANSWER: Allah is greater than everything your can think of. We describe Allah only by what He Himself described Himself by or by what His messenger did. We don’t use the word “body” as He did not use it nor we imagine things which Satan puts in our minds, otherwise we would be followers of […]

There is a dish called haleem which people say is allahs name can we call it that or do we have to change the name

Halal/Haram Matters, Names and Attributes of Allaah

22 Jul

ANSWER: No problem in the name and no problem whatsoever in eating it.

In an answer of islamqa,they stated that, swearing by the life of the one who sent down the Quran is swearing by one of the attributes of Allah,namely the attribute of life. So can we say that, Allah has life? If yes, then how can we understood this? Because all of Allah’s creation has life and Allah doesn’t resemble amy of his creation

Names and Attributes of Allaah

23 Jun

ANSWER: Life is one of Allah’s attributes and the ever living is one of His beautiful names. His life is unlike the life of His creations as He is the first without a beginning and the last without an end. He is ever living and never dies.

I read that the name “Allah” of Allah azzawajal “comprises all the meanings of His beautiful Names” from “allahsnames.net” website. Or in other words the meaning of all of Allah’s other names are within this name. Is this correct?

Names and Attributes of Allaah

29 Sep

ANSWER: Yes. Allah’s Beautiful Names

Shaikh,to hold my concentration on salat,I often imagine that I am standing before Allah and Allah is in front of me and HE is seeing me and during prostration,I imagine that I am prostrating near Allah’s Feet.But I am afraid,is this kind of imagination sinful?Or should I imagine that Allah is in HIS ARSH and HE is seeing me from there during my salat?Please help me,am I doing something sinful?

Belief in Allaah, Names and Attributes of Allaah, Prayer

14 Jan

ANSWER: The Muslim is not supposed to try to imagine or picture Allah, rather, he has to believe in the sublime attributes which befit His Might and Majesty in which there is none like unto Him.

Is it allowed for a muslim to say : “O my God” or ” O my Gosh” or similar things of that nature?

Names and Attributes of Allaah

23 Dec

ANSWER: One should not say this as God is not one of Allah’s beautiful names.

Sheikh, a high profile educator (non-Muslim) told me that the meaning of the word “Allah” is “unique”. I searched everywhere, I dint get any answer, can you please say me so that I can convey him!

Names and Attributes of Allaah

23 Dec

ANSWER: The name Allaah refers to the One Who is adored and worshipped, the One Who possesses the attributes of divinity and to whom all His creation is enslaved. The attributes of divinity with which He describes Himself are the attributes of perfection.

Is the understanding that Allah has two kinds of attributes, those perceived (without idrak) with the heart and with the eyes (ie: not abstract). As for Allah’s Wajh, Saaq, Yadain, qadamain, aynain etc they can be perceived with the eyes (ie: not abstract) but differ in their ru’ya, and the how is unknown to us.

Names and Attributes of Allaah

03 Dec

ANSWER: Going into such details is not from the sunnah and it may open the door for Satan to come in from. We believe in all of Allah’s attributes as He described Himself and as His Messenger salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam has described Him with. We don’t see Him and we can’t imagine His […]

Shaikh one of my friend is asking can we call Allah Almighty by Yahweh (jehovah) because this name is used in torah (hebrew) for Allah Almighty…..

Names and Attributes of Allaah

02 Dec

ANSWER: Why would you call Allah anything other than what Allah has named Himself with in the Quran or in sunnah? This is not permissible.

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