AYAH ISME AAZAM
AYAH ISME AAZAM
The following supplicatory prayers are quoted from considerable reference books:
First:
The Verses of the Greatest Name
The reverent Sayyid Ali Khan al-Shirazi - may
Allah’s pleasure be with him - has mentioned in his book of al-Kalim al-Tayyib that Almighty
Allah’s Greatest Name (alism al-a’zam) stands for each statement that beings with the word “
Allah” and ends up with the word “huwa (He),” provided that the statement (in Arabic) be empty of any dotted letter and that its recitation does not change whether it is parsed or not. Such statements can be found in the Holy Qur’an in five verses of five different Surahs: al-Baqarah (2:255), Al-’Imran (3:2), al-Nisa’ (4:87), Taahaa (20:8), and al-Taghabun (64:13). Shaykh al-Maghribi says, “If one betakes to these five verses as a supplicatory prayer that is repeated twelve times a day, all his general and particular affairs will be made easy for him without delay,
Allah willing.” These five verses are as follows:
First: Verse 155 of Surah al-Baqarah (No. 2), which has been previously cited in this book.
Second: Verse 2 of SurahAl-’Imran (No. 3):
2 (اللَّهُ لا اِلَهَ اِلا هُوَ الْحَيُّ الْقَيُّومُ نَزَّلَ عَلَيْكَ الْكِتَابَ بِالْحَقِّ مُصَدِّقا لِمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ وَ اَنْزَلَ التَّوْرَاةَ وَ الْاِنْجِيلَ مِنْ قَبْلُ هُدًى لِلنَّاسِ وَ اَنْزَلَ الْفُرْقَانَ)
Third: Verse 87 of Surah al-Nisa’ (No. 4):
3 (اللَّهُ لا اِلَهَ اِلا هُوَ لَيَجْمَعَنَّكُمْ اِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ لا رَيْبَ فِيهِ وَ مَنْ اَصْدَقُ مِنَ اللّٰهِ حَدِيثا)
Fourth: Verse 8 of SurahTaahaa (No. 20):
4 (اللَّهُ لا اِلَهَ اِلا هُوَ لَهُ الْاَسْمَاءُ الْحُسْنَى)
Fifth: Verse 13 of Surah al-Taghabun (No. 64):
5 (اللَّهُ لا اِلَهَ اِلا هُوَ وَ عَلَى اللّٰهِ فَلْيَتَوَكَّلِ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ).