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When We Implore Allah Most High
There
is a divine seal on each person’s fingerprints. It is one of
Almighty Allah’s miracles that He Most High has created for each
individual fingerprints unique to him. No fingerprints of a person
can ever be exactly the same as another’s, even in the case of
identical twins. This has been proved by scientific experiments.
It
is a scientific fact that fingerprints of people are completely
different, but there is something with regard to people’s
palms that is shared by them all. If every person looks at the palms
of his hands on raising them towards heaven while supplicating
Almighty Allah, he will find that in the right palm there are three
lines forming the figure 18,
and in the left one there are three lines forming the figure 81.
These figures are Arabic numbers equivalent to the English numbers
18 (in the right palm) and 81 (in the left). If the numbers are
added together, they equal 99, which is the total number of
Allah’s Names! And in a believer’s heart there reposes the
hundredth Name of Almighty Allah, i.e., His Greatest Name.
See
Allah Most High willed that His Greatest Name be reposed in His
believers’ hearts! This is implied in the hadith qudsi (divine
hadith), in which Almighty Allah says: “Neither My earth nor My
heaven can perceive My Greatness; it is only My true believers’
hearts that can behold it.”
He
whose heart is deeply attached to Almighty Allah will perceive
Allah’s Greatness, for its repose is in his heart.
Let
us fill our heart with Allah’s love, raise our hands that contain
His Names towards heaven, and purify our hearts that perceive His
Greatness in deep supplication to Him Most High. When we do so,
Allah Almighty will answer our supplications. The Prophet (peace and
blessings be upon him) said: “Supplicate Allah Almighty and be
certain that He Most High will answer your prayer.”
When
we perceive Almighty Allah’s great Names and turn unto Him Most
High in sincere prayers, He Almighty will answer our prayers and
admit us into Paradise.
There
is a hadith to the effect that Allah Most High admits into Paradise
he who learns His Great Names.
Allah
Almighty also says: [Allah’s
are the fairest names. Invoke Him by them.]
(Al-A`raf: 180).
He
Most High also says: [Say
(unto mankind): Cry unto Allah, or cry unto the Beneficent, unto
whichsoever ye cry (it is the same). His are the most beautiful
names.]
(Al-Israa’: 110).
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