Thursday, March 5, 2009

Al-Mumin 7
The Inspirer of Faith
O you who have attained to faith!
Remember God with unceasing remembrance,and extol His limitless glory from morn to evening.
He it is who bestows His blessings upon you,with His angels echoing Him,so that He might take you out of the depths of darkness into the light.
Al-Ahzab 33:41
How long will you say,
"I will conquer the whole world and fill it with myself"?
Even if snow covered the world completely,
the sun could melt it with a glance.
A single spark of God's mercy
can turn poison into springwater.
Where there is doubt,
He establishes certainty.
Rumi, Mathnawi I:542-546
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99 Names of Allah
As-Salam 6
The Source of Peace
And know that God invites man unto the abode of peace,and guides him that wills to be guided onto a straight way.
Yunus 10:25
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99 Names of Allah
Al-Quddus 5
The Holy
And We vouchsafed unto Jesus, the son of Mary,all evidence of the truth, and strengthened him with holy inspiration.
Al-Baqarah 2:252,
99 Names of Allah
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The 99 Names of Allah :
Al-Malik 4
The Absolute Ruler
And thus have We bestowed from on high this divine writ
as a discourse in the Arabic tongue,
and have given therein many facets to all manner of warnings,
so that men might remain conscious of Us,
or that it give rise to a new awareness in them.
Know, then that God is sublimely exalted,
the Ultimate Sovereign, the Ultimate Truth:
and knowing this, do not approach the Qur'an in haste,
ere it has been revealed unto thee in full, but always say:
"O my Sustainer, cause me to grow in knowledge!"
Ta Ha 20:113-114, tr. Asad
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99 Names of Allah
Ar-Rahim
The All-Merciful
Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim
In the name of God, the infinitely Compassionate and Merciful
Al-Fatihah 1:1
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99 Names of Allah
Ar-Rahman
The All-Compassionate
The Most Gracious has imparted this Qur'an unto man.
He has created man: He has imparted unto him articulate thought and speech.
At His behest the sun and the moon run their appointed courses; before Him prostrate themselves the stars and the trees.
And the skies has He raised high, and has devised for all things a measure, so that you too, O men, might never transgress the measure of what is right: weight, therefore, your deeds with equity, and cut not the measure short!
and the earth has He spread out for all living beings, with fruit thereon, and palm trees with sheathed clusters of dates, and grain growing tall on its stalks, and sweet-smelling plants.
Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow?
Ar-Rahman 55:1-13, tr. Asad
99 names of Allah
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Allah
The Greatest Name
In the name of God,
the infinitely Compassionate and Merciful.
Praise be to God, Lord of all the worlds.
The Compassionate, the Merciful.
Ruler on the Day of Reckoning.
You alone do we worship,
and You alone do we ask for help.
Guide us on the straight path,
the path of those who have received your grace;
not the path of those who have brought down wrath,
nor of those who wander astray.
Amen.
Al-Fatiha 1,
Hand is above hand, child, in skill and in strength,
up to the Essence of God.
The ultimate end of all hands is the Hand of God:
the ultimate end of all torrents is undoubtedly the sea.
From it the clouds take their origin,
and in it, too, the torrent has an end.
Rumi, Mathnawi IV:3162-3164, tr. Helminski
