ONE NAME WHICH HAS BEEN HIDDEN BY ALLAH IS CALLED ISM ALLAH AL-A'ZAM.
RELIGIOUS SCHOLARS HAVE RELATED THAT ALLAH HAS THREE THOUSAND NAMES. ONE THOUSAND ARE ONLY KNOWN BY ANGELS, 1000 KNOWN ONLY BE PROPHETS, 300 ARE IN THE TORAH (OLD TESTAMENT), 300 ARE IN ZABUR (PSALMS OF DAVID)
300 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AND 99 ARE IN THE QUR'AN. THIS MAKES 2999 NAMES.
ALL OF ALLAH'S NAMES ARE GREAT, BUT SINCE HE HAS HIDDEN THIS PARTICULAR NAME IS REFERRED TO THE GREATEST NAME. THE NAME MENTIONED IN THE ONLY QUR'AN AT THIS HADITS STATES:
ASMA RADIYALLAH ANHA, REPORTS THAT PROPHET MUHAMMAD, PEACE AND BLESSINGS OF ALLAH BE UPON HIM, SAID : "THE GREATEST NAME OF ALLAH IS IN THESE TWO VERSES OF THE QUR'AN, 'HE WHO IS WORSHIPPED BY YOU IS ONE GOD, THERE IS NO GOD BUT HIM, THE COMPASSIONATE AND THE BENEFICENT (SURAH 2-163): ALSO IN THE FIRST PART OF (SURA ALI IMRAN-VERSE 1 AND 2).
AISHA RADIYALLAH ANHA, MENTIONED THAT YA RABB (OH LORD) IS THE GREATEST NAME.
SURA AL-BAQARA VERSE 163.
And your Allah is One Allah. There is no god but He, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
Dan Tuhan kamu ialah Tuhan yang Maha Esa; tiada Tuhan (Yang berhak disembah) selain dari Allah, yang Maha Pemurah, lagi Maha Mengasihani.
SURA ALI IMRAN VERSE 1 & 2.
الم
اللَّهُ لَا إِلَـٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ الْحَيُّ الْقَيُّومُ
Alif, Laam, Miim.
Allah. There is no god but He,-the Living, the Self-Subsisting, Eternal.
Allah tiada Tuhan (yang berhak disembah) melainkan Dia, Yang Tetap Hidup, Yang Kekal selama-lamanya mentadbirkan sekalian makhlukNya.
وَعَنَتِ الْوُجُوهُ لِلْحَيِّ الْقَيُّومِ
Taha verse 111
And (all) faces shall be humbled before (Allah), Al-Hayyul-Qayyum (the Ever Living, the One Who sustains and protects all that exists). And he who carried (a burden of) wrongdoing (i.e. he who disbelieved in Allah, ascribed partners to Him, and did deeds of His disobedience), will be indeed a complete failure (on that Day).
WHOEVER READS THE QUR'AN WILL HAVE READ THE GREATEST NAME PROBABLY WITHOUT KNOWING IT. SOME OF THE COMPANIONS OF THE PROPHET, MAY THE PEACE AND BLESSINGS OF ALLAH BE UPON HIM, KNEW THE NAME. ALI KARRAMALLAHU WAJHAH (THE FOURTH CALIPH), MAY ALLAH EXALT HIM, WAS ONE WHO KNEW.
ALL OF ALLAH'S NAMES ARE GREAT, BUT SINCE HE HAS HIDDEN THIS PARTICULAR NAME IS REFERRED TO THE GREATEST NAME. THE NAME MENTIONED IN THE ONLY QUR'AN AT THIS HADITS STATES:
ASMA RADIYALLAH ANHA, REPORTS THAT PROPHET MUHAMMAD, PEACE AND BLESSINGS OF ALLAH BE UPON HIM, SAID : "THE GREATEST NAME OF ALLAH IS IN THESE TWO VERSES OF THE QUR'AN, 'HE WHO IS WORSHIPPED BY YOU IS ONE GOD, THERE IS NO GOD BUT HIM, THE COMPASSIONATE AND THE BENEFICENT (SURAH 2-163): ALSO IN THE FIRST PART OF (SURA ALI IMRAN-VERSE 1 AND 2).
AISHA RADIYALLAH ANHA, MENTIONED THAT YA RABB (OH LORD) IS THE GREATEST NAME.
SURA AL-BAQARA VERSE 163.
وَإِلَـٰهُكُمْ إِلَـٰهٌ وَاحِدٌ ۖ لَّا إِلَـٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ الرَّحْمَـٰنُ الرَّحِيمُ
Dan Tuhan kamu ialah Tuhan yang Maha Esa; tiada Tuhan (Yang berhak disembah) selain dari Allah, yang Maha Pemurah, lagi Maha Mengasihani.
SURA ALI IMRAN VERSE 1 & 2.
الم
Alif, Laam, Miim.
Allah. There is no god but He,-the Living, the Self-Subsisting, Eternal.
Allah tiada Tuhan (yang berhak disembah) melainkan Dia, Yang Tetap Hidup, Yang Kekal selama-lamanya mentadbirkan sekalian makhlukNya.
وَعَنَتِ الْوُجُوهُ لِلْحَيِّ الْقَيُّومِ
Taha verse 111
And (all) faces shall be humbled before (Allah), Al-Hayyul-Qayyum (the Ever Living, the One Who sustains and protects all that exists). And he who carried (a burden of) wrongdoing (i.e. he who disbelieved in Allah, ascribed partners to Him, and did deeds of His disobedience), will be indeed a complete failure (on that Day).
WHOEVER READS THE QUR'AN WILL HAVE READ THE GREATEST NAME PROBABLY WITHOUT KNOWING IT. SOME OF THE COMPANIONS OF THE PROPHET, MAY THE PEACE AND BLESSINGS OF ALLAH BE UPON HIM, KNEW THE NAME. ALI KARRAMALLAHU WAJHAH (THE FOURTH CALIPH), MAY ALLAH EXALT HIM, WAS ONE WHO KNEW.
