{"id":2073,"date":"2012-05-12T09:16:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T09:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2012-05-12T09:19:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T09:19:03","slug":"question-names-attributes-allaah-al-prefix-haleem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/question-names-attributes-allaah-al-prefix-haleem.htm","title":{"rendered":"A Question About Allaah’s Names that Some Scholars Have Affirmed Using Texts that do not Have the “Al-” Prefix, Like “Al-Haleem”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Name of Allaah…<\/em><\/p>\n

Regarding the book Exemplary Principles Concerning the Names and Attributes of Allaah<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0in the evidences section for Allaah’s Names,\u00a0there may be names with ‘al’ before them, but in the evidence used for those names there is no ‘al’. For example, on page 246, Name #22,\u00a0\u00a0it gives the name Al-Haleem<\/strong> but in the Aayah below that it says Haleemun (not al-Haleem<\/strong>). So is this something allowed, or is it that the name al-Haleem<\/strong> is established in another place in the Qur’aan or Sunnah ? Should I just trust the names of Allaah with ‘al’ at the beginning shown in the book, although the evidences used for those names dont always come with ‘al’? This is an important issue for me as I am worried about affirming a Name for Allaah that is not His Name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Having “Al-” or not is not<\/strong>\u00a0the only one consideration the scholars use for establishing a Name for Allaah. If it was only this then we would not be able to complete a list of 99 names, and our list would include other names like “At-Tabeeb”<\/strong><\/em> (the Doctor)\u00a0and “Ad-Dahr”<\/strong><\/em> (The Time), which are unanimously (or almost unanimously) not considered<\/strong> to be from Allaah’s Beautiful Names.<\/p>\n

So the scholars generally consider:<\/p>\n