The Beautiful Names of Allah

The 99 Names · From the Prophetic Sunnah

Al-Jameel الجميل

The Beautiful in His essence, names, attributes and actions.

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. 181 ↗

Evidence

«إِنَّ اللَّهَ جَمِيلٌ يُحِبُّ الجَمَالَ»
Sahih Muslim (91)

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 إنك جميل تحب الجمال، فجمّل باطني بالإيمان وظاهري بالطاعة

O Allah, You are Beautiful and love beauty; beautify my inner self with faith and my outward self with obedience.

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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