Perhaps once one remembers and lives accordingly to their essential reality, many more Names will be disclosed to them. Man is provided with these Names as a reminder of their own true essence. Thus, it would be a mistake to confine the Names of Allah to only 99, when the Dimension of the Names designates the infinite quantum potential, which involves the act of observing in Allah’s Knowledge.
Contrarily, the names Jalil, Wajid and Majid are all included in the 99 Names but are not mentioned in the Quran. He does as He wishes) mentioned in the verse ‘ yaf’alu ma yureed’, is also not included among the 99 Names. The name Mureed, which alludes to the attribute of ‘will’ (i.e. Let us give an example… There are many names, such as Rabb, Mawla, Kareeb and Hallaq, that are mentioned in the Quran but are not included as part of the 99 Names. One can never say that the names that refer to Allah are limited to only 99. It is the Totality of the Names (all of the Names that have been imparted to us and that comprise our existence) that man has been endowed with and is invited to remember! Some of these have been disclosed in the Quran and some were revealed by the Rasul of Allah. ‘the remembrance of man’s essential reality’, is actually a disclosure of the Names to expound ‘ Uluhiyyah’. The Quran, which has been conveyed as a Dhikr, i.e.
Once this reality is fully conceived and comprehended we may move on to the Names of Allah. In the case of the Names of Allah, let us contemplate the following: Are the Names of Allah a collection of fancy titles of a God beyond? Or, are they references made to the creational properties of Allah (which the senses and conditionings externalize!) with which the entire known cosmos and everything in it becomes manifest from nothingness into a shadow existence?
Sometimes, a name is used only to channel the attention to multiple qualities, without revealing anything about the identity. A name does not explain what it references in totality, but merely alludes to an identity, or an attribute of an identity. Let us heed the fact that a ‘name’ is only used as a reference to an object or quality. B’ismi-Allah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim… Allah, who created me with His Names (exalted, magnificent, and perfect qualities), is Rahman and Rahim!