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NOBLE NAMES OF RASOOL-ALLAH (SWT)
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SALLALLAHU
ALAYHI WA'SALLAM (MUHAMMAD)
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Allah's
Name I begin, the Beneficent, the Merciful
THE NOBLE NAMES OF THE PROPHET
Sallal
Laahu Alayhi Wa Sallam
A seventeenth-century
Suhrawardi mystic of Ucch (Pakistan) composed a work
called Jawahir al-auliya (Jewels of the Saints), that
contains an interesting chapter on the virtues and blessing
powers of Muhammad's ninety-nine names. The author recounts
various traditions connected with their use. The Great
saint Shaykh Abdul Qadir Gilani is reported to have
said that a person who recites them once every day and
every night will be preserved from all kinds of affliction,
and his faith will always remain undisturbed.
According
to the author's ancestor, Makhdum Jahaniyan of Ucch,
the recitation of these names after the dawn prayer
will cause all sins, great and small, open and secret,
to be forgiven, and Sultan Sayyid Mahmud Nasiruddin
Bukhari is reported to have said that whoever recites
them seven times after the noon prayer will never be
harassed by birds or beasts. Another Sufi ascribed to
their elevenfold recitation after the evening prayer
an increase in knowledge, mildness, and gnosis.
But
the greatest reward, for someone who recites Muhammad's
ninety-nine names twelve times after the night prayer,
was revealed to Makhdum Jahaniyan by the Prophet himself
during that Sufi's visit to Medina: Muhammad promised
that he would definitely bring that person to Paradise,
and would not enter it without him.
Many
modern printed copies of the Qu’ran enumerate the ninety-nine
Divine Names at the beginning and list the ninety-nine
names of the Prophet on the final two pages. An annotated
list Appendix is on the next page.
Note: The manner of reciting the noble names is as such
you recite sayyiduna then the name and finish with sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, for example (Sayyiduna Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, Sayyiduna Ahmad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, Sayyiduna Hamid sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Sayyiduna
Mahmud sallallahu alayhi wa sallam…etc).
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