Explanation to the Beautiful and Perfect Names of Allah

Explanation to the Beautiful and Perfect Names of Allah
Abdul Rehman Bin Nasir As-Sadi

From the most noble and lofty stations of cognisance is to know the Lord, the Glorious, All of them know Him through an Attribute from amongst His Attributes but those amongst them who have the most complete cognisance are those who know Him through His perfection, magnificence and beauty. There is nothing comparable to Him in any of His Attributes, if you were to try and compare their collective outward and inward beauty to the beauty of the Lord, the Glorious, the comparison would be more ineffectual than a faint torch being held against the blazing disk of the sun.

This treatise has been extracted from the opening words of Shaykh as-Sa'di, to his tafsir of the Quran, Tafsir al Karim al Rahman, in which he succinctly and beautifully explains those names of Allah that occur in the Quran. After each explanation the translator has added some verses of the Quran showing the usage of the particular name in question.