What is meant by counting the good names?
There are ranks for the count:
First place: Counting its words and the number specified in the hadith (99 nouns).
The second rank: understanding its meanings and connotations.
The third rank: the supplication of God with it.
" وَلِلّهِ الأَسْمَاء الْحُسْنَى فَادْعُوهُ بِهَا ". سورة الأعراف / آية : .180.
"And to Allāh belong the best names, so invoke Him by them."
Types of supplication in the name of God:
1- Supplication of praise.
2- Supplication of worship.
3- Supplication, a request and a question
A prayer of praise:
It is to praise Allah with His Most Beautiful Names and High Attributes.
Example: O live, Qayyum (prayer of praise), with your mercy I seek help.
Supplication of worship:
It is that you in your worship fulfill the requirements of these names, so mercy is required from the name the "Compassionate",so you have mercy on the servants of Allah, and you are characterized by the attribute of mercy, this is a supplication of worship in His Name the Most Merciful.
And you repent because he is the “repentant,” and you fear him in secret and in public, because he is “the gentle, the expert.”
Noting that among the names of Allah there are names that require from the servant merely acknowledgment and submission to them, as they are only for Allah
"The Arrogant", "The great", "The compeller" .
Supplication for request and question ...
And in it he asks about every request in the name of one of Allah’s beautiful names that necessitates that required.
For example, he says in a place of need: “O Giver, O He who prevents me,” give me ..
· الإخبار عن الله تعالى :
إن ما يدخل في باب الإخبار عنه تعالى أوسع مما يدخل في باب أسمائه وصفاته .
ـ فالأسماء الحسنى والصفات العلى : توقيفية ، لا مجال للعقل فيها ، فيجب الوقوف فيها على ما جاء به الكتاب والسنة .
ـ وكل اسم يشتق منه صفة ، وليست كل صفة يشتق منها اسم .
فباب الصفات أوسع من باب الأسماء .
مثال للصفات التي لا تشتق من الأسماء : الضحك ، النزول ، الاستواء ، .....
الإخبار :
يراد به ما يجوز إطلاقه على الله عن طريق الخبر ، وذلك بمعنى من المعاني لم يرد بلفظه في الكتاب والسنة ، وإن كان معناه مطلوبًا إثباته شرعًا لدلالته على معنى حسن ، أو معنى ليس فيه شائبة ذم ، قد نفاه عنه بعض المبتدعة فيخبر عنه به للرد عليهم .
كأن ينازعك في قِدَمِهِ ، أو وجوب وجوده ، فتقول مخبرًا عنه بما يستحقه : إنه قديم ، وواجب الوجود .
معنى واجب الوجود :
أي : لم يسبقـه عدم ولا يلحقه زوال .
أي : أزلي أبدي ... وهذا في حق الله .
معنى ممكن الوجود :
أي : كان بعد أن لم يكن ، وهذا في حق كل مخلوق .
من الأسماء ما لا يطلق على الله عز وجل إلا مقترنًا بما يقابله :
مثل : " الظاهر " ، " الباطن " / " القابض " ، " الباسط " / " المقدِّم " ، " المؤخِّر " / " الأول " ، " الآخر " / ... ... .
فلا يجوز لأي اسم من هذه الأسماء أن يُفرد عن مقابله ، لأن الكمال في اقتران كل اسم من هذه الأسماء بما يقابله .
فلو قلت : يا " ظاهر " ، يا " قابض " ، يا " مقدم " ، يا " أول " ، ..... ، واقتصرت على ذلك ، لم تكن مثنيًا عليه سبحانه ، ولا حامدًا له حتى تذكر مقابلها .
oفـائدة :
ليس معنى تقسيم التوحيد إلى أنواع ثلاثة ، ليس معناه عدم وجود علاقة بين هذه الأنواع وتلازم ، ولكن جميع أنواع التوحيد متلازمة ، فينافيها كلها ما ينافي نوعًا منها :
فمن أشرك في نوع منها فهو مشرك في بقية الأنواع .
مثال ذلك : دعاء غير الله وسؤاله ما لا يقدر عليه إلا الله :
ـ فدعاؤه إياه ، عبادة صرفها لغير الله من دون الله ، فهذا شرك في " الألوهية " .
ـ وسؤاله إياه تلك الحاجة من جلب خير أو دفع شر معتقدًا أنه قادر على قضاء ذلك ؛ هذا شرك في " الربوبية " ، حيث اعتقد أنه متصرف مع الله في ملكوته .
ـ ثم إنه لم يدعه هذا الدعاء من دون الله إلا مع اعتقاده أنه يسمعه على البعد والقرب في أي وقت كان ، وفي أي مكان ، وهذا شرك في " الأسماء والصفات " حيث أثبت له سمعًا محيطًا بجميع المسموعات لا يحجبه قُرب ولا بُعْد فاستلزم هذا الشرك في " الألوهية " ، الشرك في " الربوبية " و " الأسماء والصفات " .
Telling about Allah Almighty
What comes under the heading of informing about Him, the Most High, is broader than what comes under the heading of His Names and Attributes.
The Names and Attributes are suspensive..There is no room for reason in it, so it is necessary to stop in it according to what is mentioned in the Book and the Sunnah.
Every name derives an attribute from it, and not every attribute is derived from a name.
The chapter on Attributes is broader than the chapter on Names.. Example of attributes that are not derived from nouns: laughter, descent, straightness.
Telling..
Means what could said about Allah by the way of telling, with a meaning that didn't occur in the Quraan or Sunnah, its meaning is legally required to be proved as it has good meaning.
A meaning in which there is no taint of slander, and was denied by some of the innovators, so he tells it in order to make them understand.
Like if he disputes with you about his being old, or the necessity of his existence, and you say, what he deserves: He is old and must exist.
The meaning of "must exist".
That is, he is not preceded by non-existence, nor is it followed by demise.
ie: Eternal ... and this is Allah.
Meaning of possible existence..
He was after it was not..... and this is for every creature.
There are names that should be conjuncted with what corresponds to it:
Example: "The Evident-The Outward", The "Constrictor-The Expander", “The Advancer-
The Delayer”
"The First"-"The Last".
These names could not be separated as perfection is in pairing each of these names with its corresponding.
If you say O The Evident, or O The Constrictor, or O The First, or O The Advancer, you are not praising Allah till you say its correspondence.
Benefit:
Dividing Monotheism into three types, does not mean that there is no relationship and coherence between these types, but all types of Monotheism are inseparable.
If one doesn't believe in one type of them, then he is disbelieving other kinds of Monotheism.
An example of this is a supplication other than Allah and his questioning of something that only Allah can do.
His supplication to him is an act of worship that is dispensed to other than Allah. This is polytheism in “divine.”.He asked him about the need to bring good or repel evil, believing that he is able to eliminate that;
This is a shirk in the "Godliness", as he believed that he is in dealing with Allah in his kingdom.
He makes this supplication with the belief that he hears it in the distance and near at any time and in any place, and this is polytheism in the “Names and Attributes”, proves to him an all-encompassing hearing that is not obscured by proximity or distance.
This is polytheism in Godliness, Divinity and “Names and Attributes.