Al-ʿAẓīm

How the scholars invoke Al-ʿAẓīm.

1. "members of Granada, including the distinguished and curious poet Abu Jafar Ahmad ibn Ridwan ibn Abd al-Azim al-Judhami. This young man was astonishing, for he grew up in the desert, never pursued knowledge or engaged with students, yet he emerged with exquisite poetry rarely matched by the great eloquent poets, such as his verse, O you who chose my heart as a dwelling, its door is the eye that watches you. The door was opened by my wakefulness after you. So send your image to close it. In Granada, I met the scholars and mystics, among them, the jurist Abu Ali Umar, son of the righteous, pious Sheikh Abu Abdullah Muhammad"

   — Ibn Battuta, Volume Two: From India to the Lands of the West

2. "He said, "Where are you from the prayer of the angels and the glorification of creatures by which they are provided? When asked what this was, he replied, "Say 'Subhan Allah wa bihamdih, Subhan Allah al-Azim, I seek forgiveness of Allah' one hundred times between the rising of dawn and the prayer of Fajr. The world will come to you submissive and humble, and Allah, Exalted and Majestic, will create an angel for each word who glorifies Allah until the Day of Judgment, and you will have its reward.""

   — Imam al-Ghazali, Book 9: The Mysteries of Supplication

3. "The Takbir, other than the opening Takbir, saying Samia Allahu liman hamida and Rabbana lakal hamd when rising from bowing, saying Subhana Rabbi al-Azim in bowing, and Subhana Rabbi al-Ala in prostration once each, saying Rabbik Firli in the sitting between the two prostrations once, the first Tashahud, sitting for it, and the intention to exit the prayer with the Taslim."

   — Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, Al-Ghunya li-Ṭālibī Ṭarīq al-Ḥaqq — Volume One