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Do human souls possess powers enabling their owner to break with ordinary laws through training? And if this is proven, is its use permissible in Islamic law? Has it been authentically established in the Sunnah or narrations that Allah has a greatest name, other than His Glorious Name, such that if one supplicates with it, Allah will break with ordinary laws for the supplicant?

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Man possesses great mental and physical powers and energies, and he can benefit from mental theories in self-development and creativity as long as it is not sorcery or charlatanism. As for the Greatest Name of Allah, Allah and His Messenger have concealed it, and scholars have differed in determining it, but it does not preclude Allah from revealing it to some of His servants so they may supplicate with it and be answered.

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