The Most Beautiful Names

The author: Sheikh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Havleti

Here is a contemporary presentation of the ninety~nine . names of God according to the Islamic Sufi tradition, in which it is said, "Qualify yourself with the qualities of God." Compiled from classical Arabic and Turkish texts of AI~Ghazali, Ibn Arabi, Djili, and Abdul Qadir Gilani, among others, these are the divine attributes by which God manifests Himself in the world and by which He completes the spirituallife of man.

Explanation of the front cover:

In August 1982 a devout Muslim bee~keeper found this honeycomb in one of his beehives, in the village of Kara~ koy, Turkey . In the formation of the honeycomb the bees have written in large and clear letters the most beautiful name of the essence of God: Allah.

And Allah says in the holy Qur'an: And thy Lord revealed to the bee:make your honeycomb in the mountains and in the trees and in the hives which men build, and eat all the {lowers and fruits and do in the way of thy Lord submissively. There comes forth from their bellies a liquid of many hues, in which there is healing for men. Therein is surely.a sign for men who re{lect.

(from Sura Al Nahl, The Bee, verses 68-69)

164 pages, paperback