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Indeed those who recite the Book of Allah, and establish the prayets and spend out of that which we have provided them, secretly and openly, hope for a sure trade-gain that will never perish. That He may pay them in full and give them even more out of His Grace. He is the Ever Forgiving, Shakir.

He, Exalted is He, is close to everybody, this closeness being of two types:

1) The general closeness which means His being close to evetyone with respect to His knowledge, awareness, seeing, wit-

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2) The specific closeness which is specific to His worshippers, those who ask of Him and those who love Him. The reality of this type of closeness cannot be comprehended, all we can see is its resultant effects - His kindness to His servants, His aiding them and His making them to be firm upon the Straight Path.

From the consequences of this closeness is His answering those who supplicate to Him and His granting them the ability to be penitent. He is the One who answers, in a general sense, those who supplicate to Him whoever them may be, wherever they may be and whatever condition they may be in as He has promised. He is the One who answers, in a specific sense, those who love Him, those who imitate and follow His Shar?ah. He is also the One who answers the one in dire need and those who have given up all hope of being answered by the creation and therefore their connection to Him has been strengthened in terms of Jove, hope and fear.

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they may be led aright. [al-Bagarah (2): 186]

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AS) Al-Kafi (The Sufficient)

The one who suffices His servants in everything that they are in need of. The one who suffices, in a specific sense, those who believe in Him, put their trust in Him and seek their worldly and religious needs from Him.

Allah drove back those who disbelieved in their rage and they gained no advantage. Allah sufficed for the believers in the fighting. Allah is the Strong, the Almighty.

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Is not Allah sufficient for His servant? Yet they try to frighten you with those who they worship besides Him! And whomsoever Allah sends astray, for him there will be no guide.

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The Prophet (8) explained these in a succinct and clear way while addressing his Lord, “You are the First, there was none before You. You are the Last, there will be none after You. Your are the Manifest, there is nothing above You. You are the Inward, there is nothing close to you.’

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He is the First, the Last, the Manifest and the

Inward. He is the All-Knower of everything.

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ca ol al-Wasi‘ (The Vast)

He is the one who is vast with respect to His Attributes and qualities and those things linked to them - this from the point of view that none can enumerate His praise as He deserves, rather He is as He has praised Himself. Vast in grandeur, authority and dominion, vast in bestowing grace and good, great in majesty and nobility.

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The fikeness of those who spend their wealth in the Way of Allah, is as the likeness of a grain (of corn); it grows seven ears, and each ear has a hundred grains. Allah gives manifold increase to whom He pleases. Allah is Wasi‘, the Ail-Know-

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O you who believe! Whoever from amongst you turns back from his religion, Allah will bring about a people whom He will Love, and they will love Him; humble towards the believers, stern towards the disbelievers, fighting in the Way of Allah and never afraid of the blame of the blamers. That is the Grace of Allah which He bestows on whom He Wills. Allah is Wasi‘, the All-Knowing.

salAl al-Hadi (The Director) ar-Rashid (The Guide)

He is the one who guides and directs His servants towards all that would be of benefit to them and away from all that would bring them harm. He is the one who teaches them what they did not previously know and guides them with a guidance that keeps them firm upon the Straight Path. He is the one who inspires their hearts with taqwa and makes them penitent and compliant to His commands.

Ar-Rashid also carries the meaning of Al-Hakim (the Wise). He is ar-Rashid in His Actions and Sayings. All of His legislation is good, correctly guiding and wise, His creation contains some wisdom.

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Thus have We made for every Prophet an enemy amongst the disbelievers. But sufficient is your Lord as Hadi and Helper.

He is the Truth in His Person and Attributes, He is the most necessary of existences, He is what the whole of existence needs to exist. He has perfect Attributes. He is the one who was, and is, described with magnificence, beauty and perfection. He is the one who was and is known to be beneficent.

His saying is the truth, His Actions are the truth, the meeting with Him is the truth, His Messengers are the truth, His Books are the truth, His religion is the truth, worshipping Him alone is the truth, everything that has to do with Him is the truth. This is because Allah is the Truth and what they supplicate to besides Him is false and invalid and because Allah is the Most High, the Great.

And say: the Truth is from your Lord, so let who-

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soever who wills believe, and whosoever who wills disbelieve.

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Say: the truth has come and falsehood has departed, indeed falsehood by its nature is bound to depart.

All praise is due to Allah by whose grace all good actions are completed, and peace and blessings be upon Muhammad, upon his Companions and all those who follow them until the Day of Judgement.

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ale al-‘Alim (the All-Knowing)

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He said, ‘peace be upon you. I will ask my Lord to forgive you.’ He has always been Hafi to me.

al-Akram (the Most Generous)

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al-llah (the True God)

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Or were you present when death came to Jacob and he said to his sons, ‘what will you worship when I have gone?’ They said. ‘we will worship your Ilah, the Ilah of your forefathers - Ibrahim, Isma‘ll, Ishaq, one [lah and we are Muslims having submitted to Him.’

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Oust oy Your Lord, He is al-Khallaq, the All-Knowing.

The pious and God-fearing will be amid Gardens and rivers, on seats of honour in the presence of an All-Powerful Malik.

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al-Mubin (the Cleat and Manifest) Retees 2808 e sree ae ase sees tk oe Sa alG es Altai at S38 On that Day, Allah will pay them in full what is

due to them, and they will know that Allah is the Truth, al-Mubin.

al-Mawla (the Master and Supporter)

..our Lord, do not place on us a load we have not the strength to bear! Pardon us, forgive us and have mercy on us. Your are our Mawla, so help us against the disbelievers.

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al-Muqtadir (The All-Able, the One who has absolute power)

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Strike a metaphor for them of the life of the world, it is like water which We send down from the sky and the plants of the earth combine with it but then become dry chaff scattered by the winds. Allah is Muqtadir over everything.

“ued al-Muta‘al (the High-Exalted)

The Knower of the unseen and the visible, the Great, al-Muta‘al.

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al-Wali (The Protector and Supporter)

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Have they taken others besides Him as protectors? But Allah is the Wali, He gives life to

the dead and has power over all things. {ash-Shiivd (42): 9]

Do you not know that Allah is He to whom the kingdom of the heavens and the earth belongs and that, besides Allah, you have no protector

and no Nasir? [al-Bagarah (2): 107]