Asma-wa-Sifaat

Great Rewards and Benefits of knowing Allah’s Names and Attributes :

• Learning Allah’s Names & Attributes is one of the best acts of worship that brings us nearer to Allah – Imam Ibn Baz
• The Excellence of the Knowledge of ‘Asmaa of Allaah and His Sifaat – By Shaykh AbdurRazaaq bin AbdulMuhsin al-Badr
• The knowledge of Allaah is the basis of every other knowledge, for the one who knows of Allaah knows other than Him – Shaykh Utahymeen| Dr Saleh as Saleh
• Reward of knowing Allaah’s Names – Sahih Hadith
• Anyone who memorizes the Names of Allah will enter Jannah?
• The Status of Having Knowledge of ‘Asmaa Allaah and His Sifaat
• Meaning of “Ahsa” in the hadith related to memorizing the 99 Names of Allaah
• Muslims can acquire the Attributes which Allah likes His Servants to acquire
• Knowing Allaah – Dr Saleh as Saleh (rahimahullaah)

Meanings of Allaah’s Beautiful Names

• List of The 99 Names of Allaah – Shaykh Uthaymeen – Dawud Burbank [PDF]
• The Ninety-Nine Names of Allaah – Dawud Burbank [Audio|En] & Transcribed PDF
• The Meaning of Allaah’s Most Beautiful Names – by Dr. Saleh As-Saleh (rahimahullah) [Audio|En]

Aayatul-Kursi (Shaykh Uthaymeen | Dr. Saleh as-Saleh)

• Tafseer Ayatul-Kursi – Excellent eBook
• Al Hayy, Al-Qayyoum: Two of Allaah’s names which comprise the perfection of Attributes and Actions
• Aayatul-Kursi contains Ismullaahi al-Aa’tham (Allaah’s Most Greatest Name)
• Verily Allaah does not sleep and it does not befit Him to sleep
• To Allaah belongs whatever is in the Heavens and the Earth
• Who is it that can intercede with Allaah except with His Permission?
• Allaah Knows what happens to His creatures in this world, and what will happen to them in the Hereafter
• They will never compass anything of Allaah’s Knowledge except that which He wills
• Allaah’s kursi extends over the heavens and the earth encompassing them all
• Allaah is Al-’Alee (the Most High) & Al-’Atheem (the Most Great)
• Points of Benefit Deduced from Aayatul Kursi

Surah Al-Faatiha

• “al-Ḥamdu lillāhi Rabbil-‘Ālamīn” – Explained by Shaykh Uthaymeen

Surah Al-Hashr

• Glorifying Allah, the Exalted, by mentioning His Names and Attributes

Principles regarding The  Names & Attributes of Allaah :

• The creed of Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah in regard to Allaah’s Names and Attributes
• Important Principles concerning Allaah’s Names & Attributes – by Shaykh Muhammad Saleh Al Uthaymeen
• The Beautiful Names and Lofty Attributes – Shaykh bin Baaz
• ilhad regarding the Names of Allah, the Most High and its types – Fatawa Arkan-ul-Islam
• No one says regarding the Attributes of the Lord, the Most High, “How?” and “Why?” except for one who doubts about Allaah – Sharhu Sunnah | Dawud Burbank [Short Clip|En]
• The Attributes of Allaah & The Creed of Ahlus-Sunnah wal Jama’ah regarding them  – Sharh as-Sunnah | Shaykh Fawzan | Dawud Burbank [Audio|En]
• It is obligatory upon the Muslim to avoid reflecting upon the Self of Allaah – Sharh as-Sunnah | Shaykh Fawzan | Dawud Burbank [Audio|En]
• Are the Aayahs About Allaah’s Attributes Regarded as Being from the Precise or Unspecific Aayahs [Muhkamaat and Mutashaabihaat]?
• The claim that there are only twenty Attributes of Allah
• Ruling on Ta’wil (allegorical interpretation) of Allah’s Attributes – Ibn Baaz
• Difference between takyif and tamthil regarding the Names and Attributes of Allah (Exalted be He)
• Tafweed of Kayfiyyah of Allaah’s Attributes – Shaykh Saalih al Fawzaan
• Actions and Attributes of Allah are Eternal (Qadimah)
• Actions should be ascribed to Allah, not His attributes – Shaykh al-Fawzan
• The consensus of Ahlus Sunnah regarding three principles related to Allah’s Attributes – Shaykh ‘Abdul Qaadir al-Junayd

Explanations of Names of Allah:

• Ar-Rabb (The Lord)
• If it is said to you, “Who is your Lord? – Usool al-Thalaatha | Shaykh Fawzan | Dawud Burbank [Audio|En] & Transcribed Notes
• “Allāh is As-Samad” – Shaykh ibn Uthaymeen
• Allaah is Al-’Alee (the Most High) & Al-’Atheem (the Most Great) – Shaykh Uthaymeen | Dr. Saleh as-Saleh
• Al-Mujeeb (The One Who Responds)
• Al-Mannan is one of the Most Beautiful Names of Allah
• Explaining the Meaning of An-Nur (The Light) – One of Allaah’s Names
• Allaah is Al-Qadeer, Al-Qaadir, Al-Muqtadir (The All-Powerful)
• Allaah is Al-Muqaddim and Al-Mu’akkhir
• Al-Fattaah (The Judge, The Opener)
• The Beautiful Name of Allaah Ta’ala al-Hayyee (The Shy One) – Complied by Abbas Abu Yahya

Existence of Allaah

• Existence of Allaah – Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen
• The Attribute of Al-Wujud (Existence) – Permanent Committee
• Our Lord is the First without any beginning, and the Last without any end – Sharhu Sunnah | Shaykh Fawzan | Dawud Burbank [Audio|En]
• Shaytan inspires with doubts like ‘Who Created Allaah ?’ – Shaykh al Albanee
• Allah is not Imageless – Permanent Committee
• Allah does not perish nor (does He) pass away – Shaykh al-Fawzan | Dawud Burbank [Audio|En]

There is nothing like Allaah

• There is nothing like Him (Allaah) – Shaykh Fawzan | Dawud Burbank [Audio|En]
• There is nothing like unto Him and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing – Shaykh Fawzan | Dawud Burbank [Short Clip|En]
• Explanation of “Allah created Adam in His own image” – Imam Ibn Baaz
• Sometimes Allâh refers to Himself by “We” or “Us” – Dr. Saleh as Saleh

Sovereignty of Allaah

• Certainly Creation and Commandment are His alone – Usool al-Thalaatha | Shaykh Fawzan | Dawud Burbank [Audio|En] & Transcribed Notes
• Allaah owns and has mastery over everything, and nothing owns and has mastery over Him – Dawud Burbank [Audio|En]
• All of the Existence is with the Command of Allaah – Sharh as-Sunnah | Shaykh Fawzan | Dawud Burbank [Audio|En] & Transcribed Notes
• Prohibition of Addressing somebody as ‘The King of Kings’

Allaah is free from imperfections

• Opening Du’a in Prayer : Subhaanaka Allaahumma wa bihamdika, wa tabaarakasmuka – Explained by Dr. Saleh as Saleh [Audio|En]
• Subhaana Rabbiyal-A’laa  – Dr. Saleh as Saleh [Short Clip|Eng]

Allaah is Self-Sufficient (As-Samad)

• “Allāh is As-Samad” – Shaykh ibn Uthaymeen
• Allah neither needs the obedience of His servants, nor harmed in any way by their disobedience – Imam Ibn Rajab

The Transcendence of Allaah & Ma’iyyah 

• The Transcendence (‘Uluw) of Allaah , Refuting Doubts and Misconceptions – by Dr. Saleh as Saleh
• Allaah is Al-’Alee (the Most High) & Al-’Atheem (the Most Great) – Shaykh Uthaymeen | Dr. Saleh as-Saleh
• Allah is NOT in the midst of, or surrounded by the heavens BUT He is above the heavens
• The Ascendancy of Allaah & A Refutation of Wahdatul Wujood & Hulool – Sheikh Al-Albanee
• Explanation of the Ma’iyyah (i.e. Allaah being with the creation) of Allaah – Sheikh Ibn Baz
• The meaning of Allaah’s ma’iyyah – Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al ‘Uthaymeen
• In the Company of Allaah: Confirming that Allaah is with His Creation – Aqeedah Al-Waasitiyyah : Shaykh Ibn Al-‘Uthaymeen
• Answering those who say that Allah is incarnate among His creation – Imam Ibn Baz

Allaah’s Descent

• Our Lord descends every night to the sky of this world when the last third of the night remains – Shaykh ‘Uthaymīn
• Allaah’s Attribute of Descent – The permannet Committee

Seeing Allaah

• My Young Daughter Constantly asks me, ‘Why can’t we see Allah in this life?’ – Shaykh Saalih Al-Fawzan
• Seeing Allah in this world overtly – Permanent Committee
• Whoever claims that he saw his Lord in this world then he is a disbeliever in Allaah – Sharh as-Sunnah | Shaykh Fawzan | Dawud Burbank [Audio|En] & Notes
• The Believers will see their Lord in the Hereafter – Shaykh ‘Uthaymīn
• The true believers will see their Lord on the Day of Resurrection openly with their eyes– Sharh as-Sunnah | Dawud Burbank [Audio|En] & Notes
• ‘Seeing Allaah’ by the people of Paradise is true, without their encompassing Him and without us knowing how it will be – Aqeedah Tahawiyyah | Shaykh Fawzan | Dawud Burbank [Audio|En] & Notes

All encompassing Knowledge of Allaah

• The Words of the Lord can never be finished – Tafseer Ibn Kathir
• Allaah Knows what happens to His creatures in this world, and what will happen to them in the Hereafter – Shaykh Uthaymeen | Dr. Saleh as-Saleh
• The Knowledge of Allaah Encompasses Everything – Sharh as-Sunnah | Dawud Burbank [Audio|En]
• They can not encompass anything of His Knowledge – Shaykh Hasan ibn Abdul Wahhab Marzooq al-Banna [Audio|Ar-En]
• The knowledge of Allaah is the basis of every other knowledge, for the one who knows of Allaah knows other than Him

Speech of Allaah

• To have Eemaan that it is Allaah Who Spoke to Moosaa on Mount Toor – Sharh as-Sunnah | Dawud Burbank [Audio|En] & Notes
• And we say that Allaah took Ibraaheem as an Khaleel and that Allaah spoke directly to Moosaa – Dawud Burbank [Audio|En] & NotesThe Qur’aan is the Speech of Allaah and It is NOT Created – Sharhu Sunnah | Shaykh Fawzan | Dawud Burbank [Audio|En] & Notes
• Qur’aan is the Speech of Allaah & He sent it down to His Messenger as revelation – Shaykh Fawzan | Dawud Burbank [Audio|En] & Notes
• The Qur’an is the Speech of Allah – by Abu Muhammad al Maghribee  [Audio|En]
• Hadeeth al-Qudsi is the speech of Allaah in wording and meaning – Fatwas of Nur Ala Al-Darb
• Was ‘Eesaa ‘alaihissalaam Allaah’s Word? – Shaykh ibn Uthaymeen

Justice of Allaah

• Allah Wrongs Not Even the Weight of a Speck of Dust – Tafseer Ibn Katheer
• Allaah has favoured some of the servants over others. He has done so justly – Sharh as-Sunnah | Dawud Burbank [Audio|En]
• Allaah’s Perfection : Mercy and Justice – Dr. Saleh as Saleh [Audio|En]

Allaah’s will

• The Issue of Freewill & Allaah’s statement “You do not will unless Allah wills” – Shaykh Uthaymeen

Other Sifaat (attributes) and Actions of Allaah:

• “Who We Must Worship?” – Dr. Saleh Al-Saleh [Video|En] Must Watch!
• Both His hands are right-handed – Shaikh Al-Albaanee
• “The Hand of Allaah is over their hands”
• The Attribute of Laughing
• Only Allaah Can Remove Harm
• Swearing by the Sifaat of Allaah – Shaykh Al-Albaani
• Allaah’s Attributes of Mocking and Ridiculing – Shaykh Al-Albaanee
• The Meaning of Allaah being the “Best of Plotters” – Shaykh al Albaani

Others

• Description of Allah’s Arsh (Throne)
• The Kursī of Allāh – Shaykh al-Albānī