THE NAMES OF RASULULLAH صلى الله عليه و سلم
THE NAMES OF RASULULLAH صلى الله عليه و سلم
We know NABI صلى الله عليه و سلم as MUHAMMAD or AHMAD, but he has many other names too. A pious person says, “Once I was in Madinah Munawwarah and it was after the Asr Salah. I was sitting in a particular place where I normally sit to recite Durood Shareef, from where the green dome is visible. A pious person came, and he had a habit of distributing sweets to the workers in the Haram. He wanted to drink Zam Zam from a can but when he opened, there was no water. So Allah سبحانه و تعالى gave me the Taufeeq. I took some Zam Zam and gave it to him. He was surprised because he did not see from where I came.
He said: “From where did you fall out?” Anyway, I presented the water to him. and he became very happy and he blessed me with Du’as. He started conversing with me. In the conversation he asked me as to how many names NABI صلى الله عليه و سلم had? At that time I remembered that some Qur’aan Shareefs have the 99 names of Allah printed in the front cover and the 99 names of NABI صلى الله عليه و سلم in the back cover. I replied; “99 names.”
He said: “Here in the front wall of Masjidun Nabawi, 360 names of NABI صلى الله عليه و سلم are written.” So, we normally only know MUHAMMAD and AHMAD. But like how we sometimes discuss one name of Allah سبحانه و تعالى, it gives us some idea of what that one aspect of Allah سبحانه و تعالى is, similarly, if we just know the 360 names of NABI صلى الله عليه و سلم, we will have some idea of who our NABI صلى الله عليه و سلم is.
