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November 15, 2025·Jumada I 24, 1447 AH·7:45 PM·12m·Saturday-Isha

The 99 Names: Myth vs. Islamic Truth

The 99 Names of Allah: Understanding, Implementation, and Supplication

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Summary

This lecture discusses the hadith about Allah's 99 Names (Asma ul-Husna) found in Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim. The speaker clarifies common misconceptions about this hadith and explains that while no authentic hadith lists all 99 names in sequence, the concept is well-established in Islamic tradition. The lecture emphasizes three key aspects of engaging with Allah's names: learning and understanding them, incorporating them into daily invocations and prayers through proper supplication (dua), and allowing these divine attributes to impact one's behavior and actions in life.

Transcript

Note: This transcript was generated using YouTube's automatic captioning, with AI-assisted cleanup for readability. It may contain inaccuracies due to background noise, audio quality, or limitations of the transcription software — particularly during Arabic recitation. Listener discretion is advised; please refer to the original video for precise wording.

رسول اشهد محمد اما بعد بوث الامام البخاري امام مسلم رحمهم الله ‏are before we have at least before states the messenger الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ان لله تعالى 99 اسما 100 الا واحده ان لله تعالى 99 اسما 100 الا واحده من احصاها دخل الجنه صلى الله عليه وسلم الله 99 الله ‏gather them and encompasses them will enter paradis now before we take a look into the meaning of this narration many of us have heard this before and one of the misconceptions that people may 99 الله سبحانه وتالى الله سبحانه وتعالى الله سبحانه وتعالى prop صلى الله عليه وسلم mention that الله 99 ‏are 99 سنه الله محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏paradante الله صلى الله عليه وسلم.

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الاحصاء في لغه العرب هو الجمع والاحاطه احصى الاحصاء احصاها number مع الفهم الاحصاء هو ان يدعو الله الله الثالث هو العمل بمقتضاها وبمقتضى الايمان ‏the meaning of these names in life put the meanings of these names and the implications of these names that they have effect on the person's life. ‏number to understand them clearly which even in the word in English encompass or gather it means that so the person first learns these names and understands their meaning number two the person starts to work these names into his dialog and vocabulary الله سبحانه وتعالى ولله الاسماء الحسنى فادعوه بها الله سبحانه وتعالى tell ‏and understand these names and understand how himself uses in the person formulate vo and them in prayers الله سبحانه وتالى name particular this is التوسل notسل متاخرين توسل توسل ‏here by prop name الله as a make her pray الله سبحانه وتعالى الله انت الرحمن الرحيم فارحمني انت الجبار فاجبرني انت الشافي فاشفني هذا هو التوسل الذي كان يقوم به رسول الله وصحابته الكرام ‏and apprate name to and the third is these names have impact on a person life they they ad to the implications of these names whatever the description of Allah that is derived from the name they are mindful of that and it starts to aff their spe their actions الله سبحانه وى 99 الله صلى الله عليه.

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99 لا يوجد حديث يصح سنده واسناده عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يذكر جميع ويسرد هذه الاسماء ال0 كل ما جاء فيه ذكر الاسماء مسروده فهي ضعيفه عند الترمذي وعند غيره ويكاد الحفاظ ان يتفقوا على ضعف هذه الروايات صلى الله عليه وسلم 99.

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عن الترمذي في سنن ابن ماجه وعند حديث 99 all those narrations have we ch of narration and some the names that are mentioned in those narrations are not actually names of Allah and other names that ar mention are of the names of mention in the qu even and that would defeat the purpose صلى الله عليه وسلم 99.

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صلى الله عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم نسال الله سبحانه وتعالى بمنه وكرمه وجوده ان يغفر لنا خطايانا وان يعلمنا ما ينفعنا وان ينفعنا بما علمنا نساله سبحانه وتعالى ا ان يعلمنا هذه الاسماء وان يوفقنا جميعا لاحصائها وحفظها وفهمها والعمل بها ودعائه بها وصلى الله وسلم على نبينا محمد وعلى اله واصحابه اجمعين والحمد لله رب العالمين وجزاكم الله خيرا ‏.