Explanation To The Beautiful And Perfect Names Of Allah

Pages: 112Cover Type: PaperbackAuthor: Shaykh Abu Abdur Rahman Nasir as-Sa'diPublisher: Dar as-Sunnah PublishersFrom the most noble and lofty stations of cognizance is to know the Lord, the Glorious, through His beauty. This is the knowledge possessed by the elite of this creation. All of them know Him through an Attribute from amongst His Attributes but those amongst them who have the most complete cognizance 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 assume that the whole of creation was in its most exquisite form, and 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 Nasir as-Sa’di may Allah have mercy upon him, to his tafsir of the Qur’an, Taysir a