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English translation: more specific / more intense
| 19:43 Jun 8, 2010 |
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|  Selected response from: Muhammad Atallah Egypt Local time: 20:49 | ||||||
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| 4 | more specific / more intense |
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| 4 | more emphatic |
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17 mins confidence: 
more specific / more intense Explanation: The two names AL-RAHMAN and AL-RAHEEM, are derived from the word rahma, which means mercy. The perfect mercy is endowing the necessitous with favour; the prevailing Mercy is endowing the necessitous and the non-necessitous. Allah’s Grace and Mercy are complete and prevalent; they are complete because He conveys His Grants to those whom He wishes to favour; as for their prevalence, Allah’s Mercy and Grace inundate the necessitous and the non-necessitous, the worthy and the unworthy with necessities, essentials and luxuries, in this world and in the hereafter. To man, mercy is not void of a heart-rending painful tendernessthat overwhelms the merciful person, as if by doing a merciful deed heis trying to overcome his own feelings of painful sympathy. Moreover,the merciful person may not be able to convey his help and grants to theneedy. Perfection lies in the perfect ability to convey and fulfill theneeds of the necessitous. From the word AL-RAHMAN, the Most GRACIOUS, one perceives a kind of Grace inaccessible to mankind’s power; Allah is the Most GRACIOUS, Most Beneficent to people; He endows them with a myriad of favours. He creates them, then He guides them to Faith and to all means of felicity, then He grants them His Bliss in the hereafter; the most perfect bliss is offered to them when they beam in brightness and beauty looking towards their Lord’s Countenance. That’s why AL-RAHMAN is more specific than AL-RAHEEM. Al-Rahman and Al-Raheem are two names denoting compassion, one more so than the other, i.e. denoting a more encompassing Compassion." Both words are "intense" forms. Al-Rahman is a form more intense than Al-Raheem and involves a more drastic change to the root. Al-Rahman is only for Allah ta'ala. No others can be names or described with this attribute. In fact, this word was not used in Arabic until Allah himself introduced it in the revelation. This is not the case with Al-Raheem. People can be described with this attribute and, in fact, Allah himself described His Messenger with this attribute in the Qur'an. Reference: http://www.islambasics.com/view.php?bkID=100&chapter=4 Reference: http://www.java-man.com/pages/Books/minhajexcerpt.html |
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1 hr confidence:
more emphatic Explanation: ... in this context. emphatic: uttered with or marked by emphasis (www.m-w.com ) And something from the same context: The term rahman is a very emphatic statement, and then the sentiment is echoed by being immediately followed by the use of another form of the same root-word. http://wahiduddin.net/words/bismillah.htm since Ahad is more emphatic than Wahid ... navedz.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/who-allah-is/ |
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