What does al-Asma al-Husna mean?
Asma is the plural of name, while husna means the most beautiful. The phrase encompasses the names attributed to God in revelation and expressing divine perfection.

Al-Asma al-Husna is more than a table to memorize: it is a path to know God through the names by which He makes Himself known, to call upon Him and deepen worship.
Study with cards, test your knowledge and return to the names you mixed up.
Knowledge of the names joins sound belief, divine transcendence and the language of prayer.
Asma is the plural of name, while husna means the most beautiful. The phrase encompasses the names attributed to God in revelation and expressing divine perfection.
They express perfection rather than deficiency, absolute sufficiency rather than need, and incomparability rather than likeness. Each opens a distinct horizon toward the same divine reality.
Ihsa has been understood as memorising, knowing the meanings, recognising their relations, and using them rightly in prayer and worship.
The Quran and authenticated hadith attribute more than ninety-nine names to God. This sequence uses the widely received list as a guided reading path.
The Quran and Sunnah contain a wider range of divine names. This sequence follows a widely transmitted 99-name reading order.
Ihsa is read not merely as counting but as knowing, understanding and living with the names in prayer and worship.
The names are understood without likening God to creation and in a manner worthy of His incomparability.
We do not present unsupported numbers, durations, worldly outcomes or claims of ‘energy’ as religious knowledge.
Names of forgiveness, generosity, nearness and enduring hope.
22Knowledge and guidanceNames of knowing, seeing, hearing, watching and guiding.
15Power and mightNames of absolute power, honor and invincibility.
7Creation and provisionNames of originating, forming, sustaining, providing and restoring life.
12Judgment and justiceNames of dominion, measure, reckoning, justice and final judgment.
18Divine oneness and transcendenceNames declaring God's unity, incomparability, majesty and freedom from all need.
25Open a name to read its meaning, theological horizon, language of prayer and related names together.
99 names
The proper name that gathers every attribute of perfection
Whose all-embracing mercy reaches every creature
Ever abundant in mercy
The absolute Sovereign
Perfectly pure and free of every imperfection
The source of peace, untouched by imperfection
The giver of security and confirmer of truth
The guardian and overseer of all
The Almighty, invincible in honor
Whose will prevails and who restores the broken
Supreme and incomparable in greatness
The creator of all things in due measure
The originator who brings creation forth in harmony
The fashioner who gives every being its form
Who repeatedly covers and forgives sins
The irresistible subduer of all
The bestower who gives freely
The provider of every creature
The opener who grants resolution
The all-knowing
Who withholds and constricts with wisdom
Who expands and grants abundance
Who lowers with perfect wisdom
Who raises in rank
The giver of honor
Who humbles with justice
The all-hearing
The all-seeing
The final and perfect judge
The perfectly just
The subtle and gentle, whose grace reaches unseen
Fully aware of every reality
The forbearing who does not hasten punishment
The infinitely magnificent
The abundantly forgiving
Who rewards even little good abundantly
The Most High
The incomparably great
The preserver of all
The sustainer who apportions nourishment
The reckoner who is sufficient for His servants
The majestic
The infinitely generous
The ever-watchful
The responder to prayer
Whose knowledge and mercy encompass all
The perfectly wise
The loving and beloved
The glorious and bountiful
The raiser of the dead and sender of messengers
The witness over all things
The ultimate reality and truth
The perfect trustee
The all-strong
The firm and unshakable
The protecting friend of the faithful
Worthy of every praise
Who encompasses everything in exact count
The originator of creation
The restorer of creation
The giver of life
The creator of death
The ever-living
Self-subsisting and sustainer of all
Who lacks nothing and finds whatever He wills
Noble and abundant in generosity
The one without partner
The one needed by all and dependent on none
Able to do all things
Perfect and all-encompassing in power
Who brings forward with wisdom
Who delays with wisdom
The first without beginning
The last without end
The manifest through His signs
Beyond comprehension, knowing every inward reality
The governor of all creation
Exalted beyond every limitation
The source of abundant goodness
The accepter of repentance
Who requites persistent wrongdoing with justice
Who erases and pardons sin
The deeply compassionate
The true owner of all dominion
Possessor of majesty and generosity
Who establishes perfect justice
The gatherer of all
Free of every need
Who grants sufficiency and richness
Who withholds and protects with wisdom
Who creates trial and harm within divine wisdom
The creator of benefit and good
The light of the heavens and earth, source of guidance
The guide to the straight path
The incomparable originator
The everlasting
The inheritor who remains when all passes
Who guides all affairs to their right end
The perfectly patient
The framework rests on the Quranic verses on the divine names, authenticated hadith and the conceptual account of TDV Islam Ansiklopedisi. Variants in transmitted lists are disclosed; unsupported prescriptions are not invented.