His Eminence the Great Imam Dr Ahmed El tayeb The Sheikh of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, that there is a true hadith that God Almighty has 99 names, whoever counts them will enter heaven, indicating that the number of God’s beautiful names is 99, and they are specific to God Almighty, pointing out that counting the names of God means the one who counted them in knowledge and action, and what is required of man. To imitate, as much as possible, these names of God.
The Grand Imam, Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, added, in statements to the Imam Al-Tayyib program, broadcast on Al-Hayat channel, that the issue of jurisdiction needs a lot of pause as well as a linguistic pause, when he says that God has 99 names and the Holy Qur’an says to God the Most Beautiful Names, these names are specific to God, and this religion is knowledge.
Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb continued, that many scholars say that God has 99 names, and there is an authentic hadith confirming that there are other names for God besides the 99, which is the supplication of the Messenger of God, peace and blessings of God be upon him: Your book, or you taught it to one of your creation, or you preserved it in the knowledge of the unseen with you.” This confirms that there are names that God knows and no one else knows regarding, and the scholars said that 99 names are the ones we taught them.
The Grand Imam, Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib, said: “If we go to the moderate, and they are 100% Islamic sects, they say that it is the right of the servant, if he finds a beautiful name that befits God’s perfection and beauty, that he has the right to call him and call him by it. God Himself.”
