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of the names of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the name al-Karim and in fact this name of

Allah it can be said that it was the first name that Allah informed us through the Qur'an

because in the first revelation so the first name that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala chose to

announce to us through the revelation of the Qur'an was the name al-akram which is of course

the superlative of karim and akram and the notion of karam or karim in the Arabic language

it implies generosity with a when we say but speak of human beings generosity with the generous spirit

as well because you see you can be generous outwardly and inwardly you are suffering why did I give

that's not karim the karim is the one who gives outward and inward that's the karim this is the

definition of ibn misqawe one of the great rulama of edab in our tradition ibn misqawe said the

karim in the Arabic language is the one who gives for good causes freely without having any

change in his heart without feeling a pinching why did I do that no the karam has to be from the heart

and from the hands then you are called karim and you give freely for that which is beneficial to

mankind with your heart being generous as well so when Allah is al-karim of course when Allah

as the wajr describes himself with any name the reality is beyond our understanding but we understand

the concept Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives and there and he gives because his nature is the

nature of giving and he gives because he loves being generous and al-akram means no one can be more

generous than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so Allah is al-karim and Allah is al-akram and Allah

describes jibreel as being karim wa innahu lakalu rasooling karim in the qawwatin in the

al-arshi makinin mota'in them me this is jibreel so Allah describes jibreel as being the karim messenger

and in another verse rasooling karim is a reference to our prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam so the

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