The Qur’an 17:110 states: ”Call upon Allah, or call upon The Merciful; whichsoever you call upon, to Allah belong the most beautiful Names,” and also Qur’an 59:22-24, which has a cluster of more than ...

Assalaamu ‘Alaykum. I currently supplicate by thanking Allaah and saying his names in english, like “You are the Entirely Merciful” as an example, saying Allaahumma salli ‘alaa Muhammad, may peace and ...

Is the name Allah simply a generic name for any and every deity in every religion? This is the way we use the word God in English. But no Muslim would ever call Zeus: Allah! The answer is to make a ...

The first pillar of Islam is to believe in the one true God, known by the name of Allah. Muslims call Allah by many names. His names are representative of His majesty and power as well as His ...

All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad, sallallaahu`alayhi wa sallam, is His slave and Messenger.

To read Abd-Allah’s full essay “One God, Many Names,” go to the Nawawi Foundation’s Web site, www.nawawi.org; click on “Learning” and then on “Learn More.” An Islamic scholar spoke to a crowd of about ...