بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
و الصلاة و السلام على أشرف المرسلين
و على اله و اصحابه أجمعين
Meaning
Al-Ism: word or expression which permits to recognize someone or something
[al-Mou’jam al-‘Arabiy al-Assâssiy. P644]
Meaning in the Tariqa Karkariya
It is the visible expression of The One who is Named. The Name (Al Ism) is the basis of all His Names and in the same time it gathers them together. It is the founding principle of all the meanings and their secrets. When the Name is pronounced, He is never separated from The One who is Named. Without implying that the Named One should be the Name nor something else than the Name itself, but rather The Name (al Ism) is the guide and the way to the different degrees of the Existence and this through the Divine Essence.
In The Quran
The word Al Ism has been quoted 71 times in the Koran, among the quoted verses :
Allah ﷻ says: “And who are more unjust than those who prevent the name of Allah from being mentioned in His mosques and strive toward their destruction.”
[surah al-Baqara, verse 114]
Allah ﷻ says: “So eat of that [meat] upon which the name of Allah has been mentioned, if you are believers in His verses.”
[surah al-An’âm, verse 118]
Allâh ﷻ says: “That they may witness benefits for themselves and mention the name of Allah on known days over what He has provided for them of [sacrificial] animals. So eat of them and feed the miserable and poor.”
[surah al-Hajj, verse 28]
Allah ﷻ says: “Those who, when Allah is mentioned, their hearts are fearful, and [to] the patient over what has afflicted them, and the establishers of prayer and those who spend from what We have provided them.”
[surah al-Hajj, verse 35]
Allah ﷻ says: “And were it not that Allah checks the people, some by means of others, there would have been demolished monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques in which the name of Allah is much mentioned.”
[surah al-Hajj, verse 40]
Allah ﷻ says: “in mosques which Allah has ordered to be raised and that His name be mentioned therein; exalting Him within them in the morning and the evenings.”
[surah al-Nur, verse 36]
Allah ﷻ says: “glorify with praises the Name of your Lord, the Most Glorified.”
[surah al-Waqi’a, verse 74]
Allah ﷻ says: “And remember the name of your Lord and devote yourself to Him with [complete] devotion.”
[suraj al Muzzamil, verse 8]
Allah ﷻ says: “And mention the name of your Lord [in prayer] morning and evening.”
[surah al-Insan, verse 25]
Allah ﷻ says: “Exalt the name of your Lord, the Most High.”
[surah al a’la, verse 1]
Allah ﷻ says: “Recite in the name of your Lord who created.”
[surah al-‘Alaq, verse 1]
In the Hadith
It is narrated on the authority of Anas that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “The Hour (Resurrection) will not occur as long as anyone says: “Allah, Allah.””
[Sahîh Muslim, 216]
It is narrated on the authority of Anas that the Messenger of Allah said: “The Hour (Resurrection) will not occur as long as anyone says: “Allah, Allah.””
[Sahîh Muslim, 215]
It is narrated on the authority of Anas that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “The Hour (Resurrection) will not occur as long as anyone says: “Allah, Allah” and as long as a woman will not walk with shoes saying: “they belonged to a man” and as long as there are not fifty women for every man and as long as the rain coming for the sky will [continue] to provoke the sprounting of plants on hearth.”
[Hadith sahih according to imam Bukhari and imam Muslim]
Abdullah ibn Mughaffar narrated that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Allah! Allah regarding my Companions! Do not make them objects of insults after me. Whoever loves them, it is out of love of me that he loves them. And whoever hates them, it is out of hatred for me that he hates them. And whoever harms them, he has harmed me, and whoever harms me, he has offended Allah, and whoever offends Allah, [then] he shall soon be punished.”
[Jami’ Tirmidhi, 3827]
