During the thousands of years before Prophet Abraham, Allah sent tens of thousands of prophets to all the bands, tribes, nations and empires on the earth, and not one of God’s Prophets was able to establish an ongoing to the present imageless monotheistic community. I do not know why polytheism and idol worship were so attractive to all the bands, tribes, nations and empires on earth, but it was. 

Prophet Muhammad said, “Allah has ninety-nine names, i.e. one-hundred minus one, and whoever knows them will go to Paradise.” (Sahih Bukhari 50:894) 

The unknown ‘minus one’ might be Prophet Muhammad’s reference to the too sacred to be uttered YHVH name revealed to Messenger Moses: “God also said to Moses, “You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. ‘ This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations” (Exodus 3:15). 

“God said to Moshe: Ahiah Asher Ahiah “I WILL BECOME what I WANT TO BE, and He said, thus say to the children of Israel: Ahiah – “I WILL BECOME” has sent me to you.” (Exodus 3:14

In the Zabur of Prophet David, King of  Israel David says to the One God: “But let all who take refuge in you be glad; let them ever sing for joy. Spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may rejoice in you.” (Psalms 5:11)

As the Quran states: (17:110): “Call Upon Allah, or call upon Rahman (the Compassionate One): By whatever name you call upon Him: For to Him belong the Most Beautiful Names.”

There is not a single agreed-upon list........

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