Many are ignorant of the name they bear, many bear the name of Allah not knowing that. Name of Allah is strictly for Him

Names such as AZEEZ, RAZAQ, WAHEED, RAHMAN, etc are suppose to have ABDUL before it meaning servant of

You are not omnipotent so why calling u Azeez, it should be abdul azeez meaning servant of the omnipotent

In as much as you are very correct regarding the use of Abdul before any name of Allah we bear, If anyone calls himsefl azeez of hafidh it is not strictly shirk.

The names of Allah in arabic we use what we call a universal mudof wa mudofilay e.g Al Hakeem, Al Fattah If the name is used in human context like Hafeedh it is not shirk cos it is in  human context and Allah himself called some of his prophet with those names and even some prophet called themselves that like Yusuf in surah yusuf he said " . . .inni hafidhun Alim" meaning i will protect with full knowledge

Now Allah is Al Alim the knowledgable and Yusuf used the name of Allah for him self in human context and not the universal mudofilay.

Allah in surah Tauba last verse (La qad jakum. . . .) called the rasul " [b]raufu Rahe[/b]em  " now these are two names of Allah He used for the Rasul  but it is also in human context and not of the universal connotation of Ar Raheem.

Lukman (AS) is called Hakeem (wise one) , these is also in human  form and not of the universal form.

In arabic when people are called hakeem it simply means the sage and not referring to Allah.

Having said all these it is still better to use abdul before your name as it is showing full humility to your creator of being his servant. The points abve is just to enlighten our minds as some poeple accuse those bearing those names of shirk which could negate thier islam but the issue is not that narrow and  wider than they think.

I hope my comments will not be misinterpreted. I myself use abdul.

Wallahu A'lam

So allah has 99 names.duly noted,would remember not to bear any without the prefix abdul.thanks

Jazakhallahu khairan @lagosboy

At lagosboy, in writing, ALIF AND LAM will be required for male and thats wat d principle of MUZAKKAR says when using it

In the sample u gave above the names of Allah came inbetween d sentence and not beginning,

Whereas for name (ismu) to be at the beginning it must require ALIF WA LAM, so ur reason can't be valid at dis junction

Jazakallah for your response.

The position of where in the sentence it is used doesnt matter in this case as it is a name (ism). The whole point stems from the concept of mudof ilaih in arabic. When the names of Allah are used in human context it doesnt symbolise the universal connotation of the almighty.

When a person is being called by his name Razak you do not add alif wa lam.

In a jumla(sentence) it is not every sentence you add alif wa lam before a muzakar in using it.

You should note we have 14 permutations of nahw (grammar) and there is really no point going deep into this here as it is just arabic language we shall be analysing.

e.g Kamaluun Rajulun aswad - Kamal is a black man. You do not put alif wa lam before such a sentence

I do not know your level of arabic language but let me just delve briefly into nahw and talk in ism.

From the perspective of iraab we have two classification of ism : Ism muttamakin and ghair mutamakin.

Ism Muttamakin : Around 80 % of isms fall into this category and their grammatical state will reflect on their last letter and an example is what i wrote above the name Razaq in a sentence will be Razakun rajulun aswad.
This ism mutammakin itself has 16 categories and their state of reflection could be in 9 different ways e.g huruf jarr, dhammah, kasra , fatha and so on but the reflection will be in the last letter and not before the sentence hence you cannot have AL before it.

Ghair mutammakin: 20% of isms fall into this and it is also a mabni. This is classified into 8 categories and i will just talk on one which is relevant here and it is
Ism mawsool: in explaining or understanding this kind of sentence one needs to know the mawsuf sifah(noun adjective) . This kind of sentence is similar to what is above where we have two isms and the second describes the first. Rajuluun karimuun (A noble man) - this kind of sentence is what we call Marifa (indefinite noun). To make it a Nakirah (definitive noun) one needs to add AL or AR , Ar rajul ul kareem (The noble man). I guess this is what you might be talking about regarding muzzakar. However the sentence with a name before it, it is already definitive and will never need an AL or AR before it hence grammatically you do not need to start a sentence with a name ism with AR or AL. e.g Jamaluun rajulun kareem.

I hope i have been able to put this across as i know it is complex to fully understand.

I also re iterate that to use Abdul before it is better however people that dont have it before their names are not committing shirk as long as they are not referring to themselves as the supreme being.

Wallahu a'lam

May Allah increase ur knowledge amin, before reading ur conclusion i was aimed to prove another point

But atlast u said it all, i didn't say omitting it is a shirk am even just hearing it frm u, all i said was it is wrong