The True Name of God
The oldest information about the true name of God that I have read concerns the Egyptian goddess Hathor. She knew it.
In my understanding the TRUE NAME of God means that a person who came to know it sees God and can speak with God.
In this text and throughout my entire activity I distinguish God Himself from all deities, goddesses, demigods and similar beings. I do not belong to those for whom God merged into one with other figures and who, for example, during religion classes in Poland in 2019 teach that Jesus handed the tablets of the Decalogue to Moses.
There are many clairvoyant and clairaudient people with various spectrums of these gifts and abilities.
One can divide people, for example, into those seeing Jesus, who handed Catherine of Siena His foreskin as a wedding ring.
Crowds of people see various Virgin Mary figures differing in beauty, size, race, archangels and similar beings.
Even larger groups see aliens.
Why, with such differentiation in the scope of clairvoyance, should God not personally speak with someone without mediation of a priest?
Especially since, as described in the Old Testament, God did this often and willingly.
It is true that the New Testament, because of the appearance of Jesus, forbids God from further appearing to people, but not everyone on Earth is Christian.
“Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah said: There are 99 names of Allah; whoever preserves them in memory [in Ibn Umar’s narration: whoever enumerates them] will enter Paradise. Truly, God is Odd (He is One, and this is an odd number) and He loves oddness.
It is also said that there exists a most magnificent hundredth name to which tradition attributed special power. Calling upon God by this name would guarantee that prayers are heard. Such belief is based on ancient Semitic beliefs according to which knowledge of a name meant possessing power over a given thing.
Muslim tradition is not unanimous regarding the supreme name of God. In some circles, especially Shiite ones, it was said that knowledge of it was to be the privilege of several prophets, saints or Shiite imams. Sufis in turn claimed that God reveals His name to those who follow the mystical path.
People searched for the supreme name among known names or within Quranic surahs. Or it was said that it is known only to God.
To avoid such speculation many Muslim scholars consider that this name is God’s own name – Allah, which is a synthesis of all names; the 99 beautiful names are synonyms of the name Allah and are equal to it in dignity.
The Quran itself indicates this, as it does not distinguish the name Allah from the others.”
I took the Quranic text from a paper by Krzysztof Modras. link.
Opublikowano: 27/05/2026
Autor: Sławomir Majda
Kateogrie: God
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