An Explanation of the Perfect Names and Attributes of Allah
 
 

It is not possible to perfectly translate the names and attributes of Allah from their original Arabic into English.
However, here are some fairly close explanations.
 
 
1. Allah 
     He who has the Godhood which is the power to create the entities. 

2. Ar-Rahman 
     The One who has plenty of mercy for the believers and the blasphemers in this world and especially for the believers in the hereafter. 

3. Ar-Rahim 
     The One who has plenty of mercy for the believers. 

4. Al-Malik 
     The One with the complete Dominion, the One Whose Dominion is clear from imperfection. 

5. Al-Quddus 
     The One who is pure from any imperfection and clear from children and adversaries. 

6. As-Salam 
     The One who is free from every imperfection. 

7. Al-Mu'min 
     The One who witnessed for Himself that no one is God but Him. And He witnessed for His believers that they are truthful in their belief that no one is God but Him. 

8. Al-Muhaymin 
     The One who witnesses the saying and deeds of His creatures. 

9. Al-^Aziz 
     The Defeater who is not defeated. 

10. Al-Jabbar 
     The One that nothing happens in His Dominion except that which He willed. 

11. Al-Mutakabbir 
     The One who is clear from the attributes of the creatures and from resembling them. 

12. Al-Khaliq 
     The One who brings everything from non-existence to existence. 

13. Al-Bari' 
     The Creator who has the Power to turn the entities. 

14. Al-Musawwir 
     The One who forms His creatures in different pictures. 

15. Al-Ghaffar 
     The One who forgives the sins of His slaves time and time again. 

16. Al-Qahhar 
     The Subduer who has the perfect Power and is not unable over anything. 

17. Al-Wahhab 
     The One who is Generous in giving plenty without any return. e is everything that benefits whether Halal or Haram. 

19. Al-Fattah 
     The One who opens for His slaves the closed worldy and religiousmatters. 

20. Al-^Alim 
     The Knowledgeable; The One nothing is absent from His knowledge. 

21. Al-Qabid and 22. Al-Basit 
     The One who constricts the sustenance by His wisdomand expands and widens it with His Generosity and Mercy. 

23. Al-Khafid and 24. Ar-Rafi^ 
     The One who lowers whoever He willed by His Destruction and raises whoever He willed by His Endowment. 

25. Al-Mu^iz and 26. Al-Muthil 
     He gives esteem to whoever He willed, hence there is no one to degrade Him; And He degrades whoever He 
     willed, hence there is no one to give Him esteem. 

27. As-Sami^ 
     The One who Hears all things that are heard by His Eternal Hearing without an ear, instrument or organ. 

28. Al-Basir 
     The One who Sees all things that are seen by His Eternal Seeing without a pupil or any other instrument. 

29. Al-Hakam 
     He is the Ruler and His judgment is His Word. 

30. Al-^Adl 
     The One who is entitled to do what He does. 

31. Al-Latif 
     The One who is kind to His slaves and endows upon them. 

32. Al-Khabir 
     The One who knows the truth of things. 

33. Al-Halim 
     The One who delays the punishment for those who deserve it and then He might forgive them. 

34. Al-^Azim 
     The One deserving the attributes of Exaltment, Glory, Extolement,and Purity from all imperfection. 

35. Al-Ghafur 
     The One who forgives a lot. 

36. Ash-Shakur 
     The One who gives a lot of reward for a little obedience. 

37. Al-^Aliyy 
     The One who is clear from the attributes of the creatures. 

38. Al-Kabir 
     The One who is greater than everything in status. 

39. Al-Hafiz 
     The One who protects whatever and whoever He willed to protect. 

40. Al-Muqit 
     The One who has the Power. 

41. Al-Hasib 
     The One who gives the satisfaction. 

42. Aj-Jalil 
     The One who is attributed with greatness of Power and Glory of status. 

43. Al-Karim 
     The One who is clear from abjectness. 

44. Ar-Raqib 
     The One that nothing is absent from Him. Hence it's meaning is related to the attribute of Knowledge. 

45. Al-Mujib 
     The One who answers the one in need if he asks Him and rescues the yearner if he calls upon Him. 

46. Al-Wasi^ 
     The Knowledgeable. 

47. Al-Hakim 
     The One who is correct in His doings. 

48. Al-Wadud 
     The One who loves His believing slaves and His believing slaves love Him. His love to His slaves is His Will to be 
merciful to them and praise them:Hence it's meaning is related to the attributes of the Will and Kalam (His attribute with which He orders and forbids and spoke to Muhammad and Mu sa -peace be upon them- . It is not a sound nor a language nor a letter.). 

49. Al-Majid 
     The One who is with perfect Power, High Status, Compassion, Generosity and Kindness. 
 

50. Al-Ba^ith 
     The One who resurrects His slaves after death for reward and/or punishment. 

51. Ash-Shahid 
     The One who nothing is absent from Him. 

52. Al-Haqq 
     The One who truly exists. 

53. Al-Wakil 
     The One who gives the satisfaction and is relied upon. 

54. Al-Qawiyy 
     The One with the complete Power. 

55. Al-Matin 
     The One with extreme Power which is un-interrupted and He does not get tired. 

56. Al-Waliyy 
     The Supporter. 

57. Al-Hamid 
     The praised One who deserves to be praised. 

58. Al-Muhsi 
     The One who the count of things are known to him. 

59. Al-Mubdi' 
     The One who started the human being. That is, He created him. 

60. Al-Mu^id 
     The One who brings back the creatures after death. 

61. Al-Muhyi 
     The One who took out a living human from semen that does not have a soul. He gives life by giving the souls back to the worn out bodies on the resurrection day and He makes the hearts alive by the light of knowledge. 

62. Al-Mumit 
     The One who renders the living dead. 

63. Al-Hayy 
     The One attributed with a life that is unlike our life and is not that of a combination of soul, flesh or blood. 

64. Al-Qayyum 
     The One who remains and does not end. 

65. Al-Wajid 
     The Rich who is never poor. Al-Wajd is Richness. 

66. Al-Majid 
     The One who is Majid. 

67. Al-Wahid 
     The One without a partner. 

68. As-Samad 
     The Master who is relied upon in matters and reverted to in ones needs. 

69. Al-Qadir 
     The One attributed with Power. 

70. Al-Muqtadir 
     The One with the perfect Power that nothing is withheld rom Him. 

71. Al-Muqaddim and 72. Al-Mu'akhkhir 
     The One who puts things in their right places. He makes ahead what He wills and delays what He wills. 

73. Al-'Awwal 
     The One whose Existence is without a beginning. 

74. Al-'Akhir 
     The One whose Existence is without an end. 

75. Az-Zahir 76. Al-Batin 
     The One that nothing is above Him and nothing is underneath Him, hence He exists without a place. He, The Exalted, His Existence is obvious by proofs and He is clear from the delusions of attributes of bodies. 

77. Al-Wali 
     The One who owns things and manages them. 

78. Al-Muta^ali 
     The One who is clear from the attributes of the creation. 

79. Al-Barr 
     The One who is kind to His creatures, who covered them with His sustenance and specified whoever He willed among them by His support, protection, and special mercy. 

80. At-Tawwab 
     The One who grants repentance to whoever He willed among His creatures and accepts his repentance. 

81. Al-Muntaqim 
     The One who victoriously prevails over His enemies and punishes them for their sins. It may mean the One who destroys them. 

82. Al-^Afuww 
     The One with wide forgiveness. 

83. Ar-Ra'uf 
     The One with extreme Mercy. The Mercy of Allah is His will to endow upon whoever He willed among His creatures. 

84. Malik Al-Mulk 
     The One who controls the Dominion and gives dominion to whoever He willed. 

85. Thul-Jalal wal-Ikram 
     The One who deserves to be Exalted and not denied. 

86. Al-Muqsit 
     The One who is Just in His judgment. 

87. Aj-Jami^ 
     The One who gathers the creatures on a day that there is no doubt about, that is the Day of Judgment. 

88. Al-Ghaniyy 
     The One who does not need the creation. 

89. Al-Mughni 
     The One who satisfies the necessities of the creatures. 

90. Al-Mani^ 
     The Supporter who protects and gives victory to His pious believers. Al-Mu'tiy  The Withholder 

91. Ad-Darr and 92. An-Nafi^ 
     The One who makes harm reach to whoever He willed and benefit to whoever He willed. 

93. An-Nur 
     The One who guides. 

94. Al-Hadi 
     The One whom with His Guidance His belivers were guided, and with His Guidance the living beings have been 
guided to what is beneficial for them and protected from what is harmful to them. 

95. Al-Badi^ 
     The One who created the creation and formed it without any preceding example. 

96. Al-Baqi 
     The One that the state of non-existence is impossible for Him. 

97. Al-Warith 
     The One whose Existence remains. 

98. Ar-Rashid 
     The One who guides. 

99. As-Sabur 
     The One who does not quickly punish the sinners. 

"...Naught is as His likeness; and He is the Hearer, the Seer..." Qur'an [42:11]
(Arabic transliteration: Huwa Allathi Laysa Ka Mithlihi Shay'un Wa Huwa As-Sami^ Al-Basir)