3-nature of god

• Allahu akbar


  God is the greatest
• Qur'an 7:180: ''The most excellent names belong to God, use them to call on Him''
• Qur'an 57:4: ''He is with you wherever you are''
• Qur'an 6:102-103: ''This is God, your Lord, there is no God but Him; the Creator of All things, so worship Him; He is in charge of everything, no vision can take Him in, but He takes in all vision. He is the All Subtle, the All Aware''
• God has 99 names in the Qur'an and Hadith (Muhammad's sayings) – each name describes a quality that God has
• Muslims


  Believe God revealed himself to Prophet Muhammad and the Holy Books
• Number of names of Allah


  • 99
  • More than 99 (not in the Quran)
• 99 names of Allah

  • Help and teach Muslims about the nature of Allah
  • Describe the different qualities that God has
• Memorizing the 99 names of Allah

  1. Helps Muslims recite or say the names to themselves during private prayers

  2. Allows them to feel God's presence, love and blessings
• Memorizing all 99 names


  Helps some Muslims get into paradise
• God's nature


  Not easy to describe where God is and what He does, because He is so great that He is beyond any human understanding
• God


  • Within all things (immanent)
  • Beyond all things (transcendent)
• Muslims believe God created everything and the universe and therefore He is outside all this and not limited by the physical world
• God's love


  Leads to His mercy on people
• Muslims: 'In the name of God, the Lord of Mercy, the Giver of Mercy'
• Adalat


  The justice of God. God holds people to account and will judge them.
• One of the five roots in Shi'a Islam ('Usul ad-Din) is Adalat