6 – “He is Allah—there is no deity except Him—the Knower of the unseen and the seen; He is the All-Merciful, the Ever-Merciful. (22) He is Allah—there is no deity except Him—the Sovereign, the All-Holy, the Source of Peace, the Giver of Security, the Overseer, the All-Mighty, the Compeller, the Supremely Great. Exalted is Allah above what they associate with Him. (23) He is Allah: the Creator, the Producer, the Fashioner. His are the Most Beautiful Names. All that is in the heavens and the earth extols His glory, and He is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise. (24)” [59:22–24].
• These noble verses gather many of Allah’s Most Beautiful Names, upon which the whole structure of tawḥīd (monotheism) and sound creed is built.
• They declare that He alone deserves worship, owing to His magnificent perfection, His all-encompassing beneficence, His universal governance, and His comprehensive wisdom. He is the true God, while any other object of devotion is false, for it lacks perfection and deeds that bring benefit or repel harm.
• He portrays Himself as possessing knowledge that encompasses the unseen and the witnessed, the past and the future, the present, the higher realm and the lower realm, the manifest and the hidden. Nothing whatsoever is concealed from Him in any place or at any time.
From the perfection of His knowledge and power is that He knows what the earth diminishes of the dead, what portions of them are scattered, and what is transformed from one state to another. He has encompassed all of that in precise detail, and reviving them for resurrection and recompense is effortless for Him.
• He also describes Himself as “the All-Merciful, the Ever-Merciful,” whose mercy has embraced the entire creation and filled all existence.
• And He describes Himself as “the Sovereign,” the One who possesses complete and unrestricted dominion; to Him belong the traits of sovereignty—majesty, grandeur, might, and authority—and He exercises absolute disposal over all