NURA · The app

The ninety-nine names, in the order they are known

The ninety-nine names — أسماء الله الحسنى — are stable, sacred reference text, and NURA treats them that way. This is not content to be paraphrased or generated: the list is the well-known canonical enumeration, the popular at-Tirmidhi ordering used across mushaf margins and prayer apps, exactly ninety-nine, numbered 1 through 99 in the standard order. In NURA's source, the order and the count are marked as load-bearing — you cannot reorder them or add a hundredth — because getting them right is the whole point.

What each name carries

Every entry has its number, its Arabic with full vowels, a transliteration, and a short English meaning given in the plain, widely-agreed sense. Where a name has two common renderings, both are shown with a slash rather than NURA picking one for you. These are the divine names themselves — not translations of Qur'anic passages. A few, so the shape is clear:

• 1 — الرَّحْمَٰن — Ar-Rahman — The Most Compassionate
• 2 — الرَّحِيم — Ar-Raheem — The Most Merciful
• 3 — الْمَلِك — Al-Malik — The King, The Sovereign
• 99 — الصَّبُور — As-Sabur — The Most Patient

Browse, enlarge, keep

The names sit in a browsable grid, each tile numbered and shown in Arabic with its transliteration. Tap one and it enlarges: the Arabic grows large, the meaning appears, and you can step to the name before or after — the navigation wraps around the ring of ninety-nine, so stepping past the last returns to the first. Any name can be kept as a favourite with a single tap; your favourites are stored, de-duplicated and returned in order, and survive a reload. Light haptics accompany each interaction, and every tile and control is labelled for assistive technology so the whole surface is usable with a screen reader.

The name of the day

One name is lifted out as the “name of the day” — a gentle place to begin. It is deterministic: a stable count of whole local days, taken modulo ninety-nine, so the same date always yields the same name and it turns over at your local midnight, not at some server's. Because it is pure and depends only on the date, it is exactly reproducible and covered by NURA's tests, and it never drifts or repeats within a cycle by accident.

Fixed data, no server

The names and the small amount of selection logic live in a pure data module — no network, no clock of its own; anything time-dependent takes the date as an argument. The text is not fetched and cannot be edited at runtime, which is exactly what sacred reference content should be. Your favourites are kept on your device; there is no account and no NuroNova backend, and the feature works offline like the rest of NURA's daily tools.

Part of a wider companion

The 99 Names sit alongside NURA's other daily tools — morning and evening adhkar, the Qur'an khatm tracker, tasbih, everyday duas, the zakat calculator and more — each held to the same standard: authentic content, presented precisely, computed on your device. For meanings, pronunciation and the deeper significance of the names, a trusted scholar remains the right guide; NURA's role is to present the canonical list faithfully and to make it easy to return to.

The ninety-nine names are one part of NURA, a free, watch-first Muslim life-companion from NuroNova Genix Co. (Delaware; headquartered in Houston, Texas). Coming soon to iPhone.