Explanation to the Beautiful and Perfect Names of Allah

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 al-Karim al- Rahman, in which he succinctly and beautifully explains those Names of Allah that occur in the Qur’an. After each explanation, the translator has added some verses of the Qur’an showing the usage of the particular Name in question. It should also be noted that the author, may Allah have mercy upon him, has only mentioned those Names that occur in the Qur’an and these come to a total of eighty-nine in his view. Additional Names mentioned in the Qur’an have been added from the work of ibn `Uthaymin, Qawa’idu-l-Muthla fi Sifati-Allahi wa Asma’hi-l-Husna, bringing the total to one hundred and three.