AL-JABBAR
The One whose will is compelling. The corporeal worlds (engendered existence) are compelled to comply with His demands! There is no room for refusal. This ‘jabr’ (compelling) quality will inevitably express itself and apply its laws through the essence of beings.
AL-MUTAKABBIR
The One to whom the word ‘I’ exclusively belongs. Absolute ‘I’ness belongs only to Him. Whoever, with the word ‘I’, accredits a portion of this Absolute ‘I’ness to himself, thereby concealing the ‘I’ness comprising his essence and fortifying his own relative ‘I’ness, will pay its consequence with ‘burning’ (suffering). Majesty (Absolute ‘I’ness) is His attribute alone.
AL-KHALIQ
The ONE Absolute Creator! The One who brings individuals into the existence from nothingness, with His Names! Everything al-Khaliq creates has a purpose to fulfill, and according to this unique purpose, possesses a natural predisposition and character. Hence it has been said:“characterize yourselves with the character of Allah” (Tahallaku biakhlakillah) to mean:Live in accordance with the awareness that you are comprised of the structural qualities of the Names of Allah!
AL-BARI
The One who fashions all of creation (from micro to macro) with unique functions and designs yet all in conformity with the whole, like the harmonious functioning of all the different organs in the body!
AL-MUSAWWIR
The fashioner of forms. The One who exhibits ‘meanings’ as ‘forms’ and devises the mechanism in the perceiver to perceive them.
AL-GAFFAR
The One who, as requisites of divine power or wisdom, ‘conceals’ the inadequacies of those who recognize their shortcomings and wish to be freed from their consequences. The One who forgives.
AL-QAHHAR
The One who executes the effects of His Name ‘Wahid’ and renders invalid the seeming existence of the relative ‘I’ness.
AL-WAHHAB
The One who bestows and gives unrequitedly to those He wishes, oblivious of deservedness.
AR-RAZZAQ
The One who provides all necessary nutrition for the survival of any unit of manifestation regardless of its plane of existence.
AL-FATTAH
The One who generates expansion within individuals. The One who enables the recognition and observation of Reality, and hence, that there is no inadequacy, impairment, or mistake in the engendered existence. The One who expands one’s vision and activity, and enables their proper usage. The One who enables the recognition and use of the unrecognized (overseen).
AL-ALEEM
The One who, with the quality of His knowledge, infinitely knows everything in every dimension with all its facets.
AL-QABID
The One who exercises His verdict by retaining the essence of an individual’s Name reality. The One who restrains and enforces withdrawnness.
AL-BASIT
The One who opens and expands; the One who enables dimensional and in-depth sight.
AL-KHAFID
The One who abases. The One who capacitates a state of existence which is far from reality. The creator of the ‘asfali safileen’ (the lower state of existence). The former of the vision of ‘multiplicity’ to conceal the reality.
AR-RAFI
The One who exalts. The one who elevates conscious beings to higher states of existence; to enable the realization and observation of their essential reality.
AL-MU’IZZ
The Giver of Honor. The One who bestows honor to whom he wishes and holds them in esteem over others.
AL-MUDHILL
The One who exposes dishonor in some and degrades below others. The One who deprives from honorable qualities and compels to humiliation with the veil of ‘I’ness (ego).
AS-SAMI
The One who perceives His manifestations at every instance. The One who enables awareness and comprehension.
This name triggers the Name al-Basir.
AL-BASIR
The One who is constantly observing His manifestations and evaluating their outputs.