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                          In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

The most beautiful names in the world belong to the One True God, Allah.

Many people are unaware that God has 99 names; and each and every name describes His most beautiful attributes. God has ordained for mankind to call and evoke Him by His names.

Prophet Muhammad (May Allah's peace and blessings be sent upon him) said: "To God belongs 99 names, 100 minus 1, anyone who memorizes them will enter Paradise; He (God) is odd (He is the Only One), and He loves odd numbers (such as 99).

Allah! La ilah illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He)! To Him belong the Best Names. (Qu'ran 20:8)

Here is the list of Allah's Beautiful Names and Attributes.
Allah (The Name of God)

Allah is the al-Ism al-A'zam, The Greatest Name, which holds all of the divine and beautiful attributes. Allah is the only One deity that is to be worshipped. He deserves to be the Only One worshipped by His whole creation. He is Allah, Lord of the Worlds.

Allah is the cause of all of existence and He does not resemble any of His creation in any way. The name Allah belongs to only Allah!! Nothing else can in any way assume that they have this name or share it with Him. Stated in this verse of the Qu'ran: "Do you know anyone who is similar to Him?" (Qu'ran 19:65)

The name Allah holds five meanings that indicate the non-resemblance of Allah to anything else that He has created. They are:
He is before the before. He came from eternity and He will always be in eternity. He always was.
He is after the after, Eternal; He will always be.

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He is unique, without partner, without resemblance and the cause of all that exists. All is in need of Him and He is in need of nothing. He commands His creations to exist by saying, "Be" and it is.
He is the Creator, bearing no resemblance to the created.

He is self-existent without need of anything.
Allah is perfection. His perfection is infinite and will never diminish. The name Allah holds eight attributes indicating the perfection of Allah.
Allah is Ever-Living
Allah is All-Knowing
Allah is All-Hearing
Allah is All-Seeing
What Allah wills is His
Allah has all power
All that exists and their actions depend on Him.

The word, all that is said and taught belongs to Him.

"Allah! La ilaha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He), Al Hayyul-Qayyum (the Ever Living, the One Who sustains and protects all that exists). Neither slumber nor sleep overtakes Him. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth. Who is he that can intercede with Him except with His permission? He knows what happens to them (His creatures) in this world, and what will happen to them in the Hereafter. And they will never compass anything of His Knowledge except that which He wills. His Kursi (throne) extends over the heavens and the earth, and He feels no fatigue in guarding and preserving them. And He is the Most High, the Most Great." (This ayat is called Ayat-ul-Kursi.) (Qu'ran 2:255)
Ar-Rahman (The Most Gracious) (The Most Beneficial)

Ar-Rahman is the Most Beneficent, the Most Companionate because He bestows the most grace and compassion upon His creatures.
Ar-Raheem (The Most Merciful)

Ar-Raheem bestows the most mercy on all of this creation. He shows the most mercy on the believers. (The people who believe that He is the only God and the only one worthy of being worshipped.

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Al-Malik (The Sovereign Lord) (The King)

Al-Malik is the Lord of the Worlds. He is the One True King. He has power over the entire Kingdom and He is free from imperfections. He is described with this attribute as being The Master and Owner. This attribute stands for Grandeur, Majesty, Omnipotence and Regulation of the affairs of His creation. He is the One who directs all of the affairs to do with creation, command and recompense. The whole of creation belongs to Him, all of it is submissive, owned and in continuous need of Him.

"Say: O Allah! Possessor of the kingdom, You give the kingdom to whom You will, and You take the kingdom from whom You will, and You endue with honor whom You will, and You humiliate whom You will. In Your Hand is the good. Verily, You are Able to do all things." (Qu'ran 3:26)

Al-Quddus (The Holy)
Al-Quddus is the Most Holy because He is pure and free from any imperfections. He is far removed from any defect just as He is far removed from anything resembling Him or coming close to resembling Him in any of His Attributes of Perfection.
"There is nothing like Him." (Qu'ran 42:11)
"Do you know of any who is similar to Him?" (Qu'ran 19:65)
"Then do not set up rivals unto Allah (in worship) while you know (that He Alone has the right to be worshipped.)" (Qu'ran 2:22)

"Whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth glorifies Allah, The King (of everything), The Holy, The All-Mighty, the All-Wise." (Qu'ran 62:1)
As-Salam (The Source of Peace)

He is the one that bestows peace upon His creatures.
Al-Mu'min (The Guardian of Faith)

He is the One who witnessed for Him that no one is God but Him. He also witnessed for the believers that they are truthful in their belief that no one is God except Him. He is the One Who sent His Messengers and revealed His Books containing signs and clear proofs. Who testified to the truth of His Messengers by enjoining on them every sign and proof that would prove the truth of what they came with.

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He is Allah, other than whom none has the right to be worshipped but He, The King, The Holy, The One free from all defects, The Giver of Security, The Watcher over all of His creatures, the All-Mighty, The Compeller, The Supreme. Glory be to Allah! (High is He) above all that they associate as partners with Him." (Qu'ran 59:23)
Al-Muhaymin (The Protector)

Al-Muhaymin is the only true Protector. He provides protection for which He chooses. He is the one who witnesses the saying and deeds of His creatures.
Al-Aziz (The Mighty)

Al-Aziz means that God cannot be defeated. He is the one who defeats. He is the One Whom belongs might and honor in its entirety, the might/honor of strength, of conquest, and of preventing. He has prevented any of His creation from encompassing and grasping Him, He is Omnipotent over everything that is in existence, the whole of creation is subject and indebted to Him and yielding before His greatness.

"Blessed be He in Whose Hand is the dominion, and He is Able to do all things. Who has created death and life that He may test you which of you is best in deed. And He is the All-Mighty, the Oft-Forgiving." (Qu'ran 67:1-2)
Al-Jabbar (The Compeller)

Al-Jabbar is the One that allows nothing to happen in His Dominion (Kingdom) except what He wills. He is the One Who is Compelling over dejected hearts, to the one who is weak and impotent, to the one who resorts to Him and seeks refuge with none but Him.
Al-Mutakabbir (The Majestic)

Al-Mutakabbir is a name and attribute of God that makes it clear that He is clear from having the same attributes as the creatures He has created and He if free from resembling them in any way. He is High above His creatures and so are His attributes. He is free from all evil, defect or deficiency.
Al-Khaliq (The Creator)

Al-Khaliq is the One who brings everything into existence. God is the creator of everything and anything.

Al-Bari (The Evolver)
Al-Bari is the Creator who has the power to turn the entities. He is the Evolver and the Maker.

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Al-Musawwir (The Fashioner)

Al-Musawwir is the One who forms His creatures with differences. He is the ultimate designer of all that exists.
Al-Ghaffar (The Forgiver)

Al-Ghaffar is an attribute of God that shows how forgiving He truly is. He accepts the repentance of His creatures, of whomever He chooses of His servants. He forgives the sins of His slaves time and time again. Allah has promised forgiveness to the one who fulfils its conditions, He said,

"&and verily, I am forgiving to him who repents, believes (in My Oneness, and associates none in worship with Me), does righteous deeds and then remains constant in doing them (till his death)." (Qu'ran 20:82)

"And those who believe in Allah and His Messengers and make no distinction between any of them (Messengers), We shall give them their rewards; and Allah is Ever Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful." (Qu'ran 4:152)
Al-Qahhar (The Subduer)

Al-Qahhar is The Subduer who has divine and perfect power and He is able to do what He pleases. He is the One Whom the whole creation has humbled itself, and submitted before His Grandeur, Power and perfect strength.

"He is the Irresistible (Supreme), over His slaves, and He sends guardians (angels guarding and writing all of one's deeds) over you, until when death approaches one of you, Our messengers (angel of death and his assistants) take his soul, and they never neglect their duty." (Qu'ran 6:61)

"So think not that Allah will fail to keep His Promise to His Messengers. Certainly, Allah is All Mighty, All-Able of Retribution. On the Day when the earth will be changed to another earth and so will be the heavens, and they (all creatures) will appear before Allah, the One, the Irresistible." (Qu'ran 14:47-48)

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