The Beautiful Names of Allah

The 99 Names · Verse Keys

Al-Akram الأكرم

The Most Generous of all, unmatched by anyone in generosity.

Explanation

A detailed explanation of this name (in Arabic) is in: Sharh Asma' Allah al-Husna fi Daw' al-Kitab wa al-Sunnah — Dr. Sa'eed ibn 'Ali ibn Wahf al-Qahtani — p. 151 ↗

The author explains this name together with: Ar-Rahmaan, Ar-Raheem, Al-Kareem, الرءوف

Evidence

﴿ٱقۡرَأۡ وَرَبُّكَ ٱلۡأَكۡرَمُ ۝٣﴾
Al-'Alaq 3

Call upon Allah by this name

“To Allah belong the Beautiful Names, so call upon Him by them” — Al-A'raf 180

Example for practice
اللهم يا أكرم الأكرمين، أكرمني ولا تُهِنّي، وزدني ولا تنقصني

O Allah, O Most Generous of the generous, honor me and do not humiliate me, increase me and do not diminish me.

An example for practice, not a transmitted text — following the Quranic way of closing a request with the fitting name (see Ibn al-Qayyim, Bada'i' al-Fawa'id 2/249).

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