There are two types of senses operating within man, along with all the demands and emotions of life. One type of sense operates during the state of dreaming, and the other during the wakeful state. If we gather both of these senses together, they amount to eleven thousand states and demands in total. There always remains a dominant Name over these eleven thousand states or demands. It could be said that Allah’s Names, which are operating in human life, are approximately eleven thousand in total, and the Name which is controlling these eleven thousand Names is the Ism-e-Azam. Out of these eleven thousand Names, five and a half thousand Names function during the state of dreaming. Because man is the best of all Allah’s creation, according to Allah’s laws, every Name that operates within a human holds the rank of being an Ism-e-Azam for another species. It is these Names that Allah taught the knowledge of to Hażrat Adam. The ones who direct or manage Allah’s administration possess knowledge of these Names according to their ranks and responsibilities.
Each Name of Allah represents an attribute of Allah. Each attribute contains creative laws within it, as well as its entire forms. All laws that function in the system of creation are Allah’s laws.
“Allah is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth”
(Sūrah Noor, 35)
It is this Noor of Allah’s that produces life and all the movements pertaining to life in vegetation, minerals, animals, humans, jinns, and angels in the form of waves. It is nature’s ceaseless benevolence that every individual of the universe is connected and related to one another through these waves of Noor.
There is a very strong relationship between the galactic systems and ourselves. All the thoughts that enter our minds one after another are related to other systems and habitats. These waves of Noor take on the form of light within no time at all. These short and long waves of light come to us bringing lots of picture galleries. It is these picture galleries that we have named impression, thought, imagination, and reflection.
Allah has declared:
“People! Call to Me, I will listen. Ask from Me, I will give.”
To call someone or to ask from someone, it is important that we are introduced to or know this being. It is also important for us to know whether this being to whom we are presenting our needs and wants can fulfill them or not. To have faith regarding this point, we must understand and recognize an entity from whom we can hope for the fulfillment of our wants, needs, desires, and wishes — even if we asked for more than a million a day. Obviously, this entity is none but Allah. Allah has mentioned His attributes using His Names.
Allah declares in Sūrah Arāf:
“And Allah has Great Names. Invoke Him by them.”
(Sūrah Arāf, 180)
In Sūrah Ahzāb, Allah declares:
“O ye who believe! Remember Allah with much remembrance. And glorify Him day and night.”
(Sūrah Ahzāb, 41)
Each Name of Allah is a hidden treasure. When the ones who are familiar with these treasures mention Allah’s Name by their tongue, they are showered with a rain of blessings and grace. Generally, there are ninety-nine Names of Allah that are popular. Each Name has a different effect. To benefit from this precious treasure, there exists a separate method to recite each Name. By the consistent repetition of a Name, the brain becomes flourished with the Divine Lights of that Name.
As Allah’s Divine Lights become stored in the brain, depending on the amount of lights, matters that are unresolved are solved, and the desired results are manifested. Just as these beneficial effects are accumulated, similarly, the darkness resulting from sinning causes the light within one to become faint and vague. Negligence, carelessness, and errors draw one closer to darkness and impurity, and distance one from Allah’s Noor. When a person knowingly settles his life upon sin and errors, he becomes an example of the following Quranic verse:
“Allah hath sealed their hearts and their hearing, and put a covering on their eyes. Theirs will be an awful doom.”
(Sūrah Baqarah, 7)
Allah’s every Name is an attribute of Allah, and Allah’s every attribute is active and mobile and in accordance with the laws of nature. Every attribute contains strength and life within it. When we mention or recite a Name, the effect and strength of the Name are manifested. If the desired effects are not achieved, we should examine and review our sinful actions, negligence, and disobedience. We are all familiar with the fact that during treatment, as well as taking medicine, it is important to abstain from certain matters. Without abstention, the medicine becomes ineffective. To treat the disease of disobedience and sinning, it is important to abstain from certain things and have a virtuous character: lawful earning, hatred of lying and love for the truth, compassion for Allah’s creation, uniformity in the outer and inner self, hatred of hypocrisy, avoidance of arguments and sin, avoidance of pride and arrogance. A person who is a hypocrite, hard-hearted, and thinks of Allah’s creation as inferior to him, and himself as superior to others, cannot achieve benefit from the qualities and virtues of Allah’s Divine Names.
Before starting the recitation of any Name, it is necessary for the aforementioned qualities and characteristics to be produced within one. Acting upon the forthcoming stated cures, and the avoidance of the aforementioned characteristics, will definitely cause one to benefit from the fruits of Allah’s Divine Names, just as our saints have been seeking favors and still are benefiting from them