Sufi Introduction to the 99 Names of Allah and sufi ... - Deen islam

Collected by Muhammad Sajad Ali - webmaster – www.deenislam.co.uk - 10 th December 2009
The One who delays or postpones. The One who puts off advancement.
The One who holds back or keeps something back to put it in its proper place.
The One who causes something to lag behind.
From the root a-kh-r which has the following classical Arabic connotations:
to cause to go back, backwards, retreat, recede
to retire, to drive back
to put behind or after
to cause to remain behind, hang back, lag behind
to postpone, put off, delay, retard
The name Mu'akhkhir is not specifically used as a Beautiful Name in the Qur'ân.
The name al-âkhir (last) also comes from this same a-kh-r root, and is the opposite of Awwal (first).
The name Mu'akhkhir (delayer) is the opposite of Muqaddim (promoter).
(Written as al-muakhkhir, the Delayer: ya muakhkhir)
73. Al-Awwal- The First One, The Pre-Existing
The One whose Existence is without a beginning.
YA AWWALU; O First! If you wish to have children, or to be united with an absent relative, invoke
this Name one thousand times on forty Fridays.Anyone desires of male children should say this ISm
40 times daily for 40 days. His need will soon be fulfilled. Insha-Allah. And if any wayfarer (musafir)
says it 1000 times on a Friday, he will soon return to his people safe and sound... Insha-Allah Any
person who is a traveller should read this name 1000 times so he will return home ver soon without
any loss.
The One who is the first, the beginning, the foremost. The Prior-Existing One who existed before all
of creation.
The One who was before any thing or any being. The One who is the cause of all the worlds.
The One who is the beginning of every action, command or thought.
From the root a-w-l which has the following classical Arabic connotations:
to be first, principle, to be before
to come back to, to return
to precede, to be the first part
to be foremost
This name is used in the Qur'ân. For example, see 57:3
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