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Asmāʾ al-Ḥusnā

The 99 Names.
The Most Beautiful.

أسماء الله الحسنى

"And to Allah belong the most beautiful names — so invoke Him by them." (Qurʾān 7:180)

Ninety-nine — with Arabic, transliteration, meaning, and source.

01 الرَّحْمَٰنُ
Ar-Raḥmān
The Most Compassionate

Mercy that extends to all of creation in this life.

Qurʾān 1:3

02 الرَّحِيمُ
Ar-Raḥīm
The Most Merciful

Mercy specifically directed to the believers in the next life.

Qurʾān 1:3

03 الْمَلِكُ
Al-Malik
The Sovereign King

Qurʾān 59:23

04 الْقُدُّوسُ
Al-Quddūs
The Most Holy

Free of every deficiency, praised with every perfection.

Qurʾān 59:23

05 السَّلَامُ
As-Salām
The Source of Peace

Qurʾān 59:23

06 الْمُؤْمِنُ
Al-Muʾmin
The Giver of Security

The One who grants refuge and truth to His servants.

Qurʾān 59:23

07 الْمُهَيْمِنُ
Al-Muhaymin
The Guardian, Overseer

Qurʾān 59:23

08 الْعَزِيزُ
Al-ʿAzīz
The Almighty

Qurʾān 59:23

09 الْجَبَّارُ
Al-Jabbār
The Compeller, Restorer

Qurʾān 59:23

10 الْمُتَكَبِّرُ
Al-Mutakabbir
The Supreme in Greatness

Qurʾān 59:23

11 الْخَالِقُ
Al-Khāliq
The Creator

Qurʾān 59:24

12 الْبَارِئُ
Al-Bāriʾ
The Originator

The One who brings into being from nothing.

Qurʾān 59:24

13 الْمُصَوِّرُ
Al-Muṣawwir
The Fashioner of forms

Qurʾān 59:24

14 الْغَفَّارُ
Al-Ghaffār
The Oft-Forgiving

Qurʾān 20:82

15 الْقَهَّارُ
Al-Qahhār
The All-Prevailing

Qurʾān 13:16

16 الْوَهَّابُ
Al-Wahhāb
The Bestower of gifts

Qurʾān 3:8

17 الرَّزَّاقُ
Ar-Razzāq
The Provider

Qurʾān 51:58

18 الْفَتَّاحُ
Al-Fattāḥ
The Opener, Judge

Qurʾān 34:26

19 الْعَلِيمُ
Al-ʿAlīm
The All-Knowing

Qurʾān 2:32

20 الْقَابِضُ
Al-Qābiḍ
The Withholder

He who contracts and restrains, by wisdom.

21 الْبَاسِطُ
Al-Bāsiṭ
The Expander

He who expands and gives without measure.

22 الْخَافِضُ
Al-Khāfiḍ
The Abaser
23 الرَّافِعُ
Ar-Rāfiʿ
The Exalter
24 الْمُعِزُّ
Al-Muʿizz
The Giver of honour
25 الْمُذِلُّ
Al-Mudhill
The Humiliator
26 السَّمِيعُ
As-Samīʿ
The All-Hearing

Qurʾān 2:127

27 الْبَصِيرُ
Al-Baṣīr
The All-Seeing

Qurʾān 4:58

28 الْحَكَمُ
Al-Ḥakam
The Judge

Qurʾān 22:69

29 الْعَدْلُ
Al-ʿAdl
The Utterly Just
30 اللَّطِيفُ
Al-Laṭīf
The Subtle, Kind

Whose kindness penetrates every created thing.

Qurʾān 6:103

31 الْخَبِيرُ
Al-Khabīr
The All-Aware

Qurʾān 6:103

32 الْحَلِيمُ
Al-Ḥalīm
The Forbearing

Qurʾān 2:225

33 الْعَظِيمُ
Al-ʿAẓīm
The Magnificent

Qurʾān 2:255

34 الْغَفُورُ
Al-Ghafūr
The All-Forgiving

Qurʾān 2:173

35 الشَّكُورُ
Ash-Shakūr
The Appreciative

Qurʾān 35:30

36 الْعَلِيُّ
Al-ʿAlī
The Most High

Qurʾān 2:255

37 الْكَبِيرُ
Al-Kabīr
The Most Great

Qurʾān 22:62

38 الْحَفِيظُ
Al-Ḥafīẓ
The Preserver

Qurʾān 11:57

39 الْمُقِيتُ
Al-Muqīt
The Nourisher, Sustainer

Qurʾān 4:85

40 الْحَسِيبُ
Al-Ḥasīb
The Reckoner

Qurʾān 4:6

41 الْجَلِيلُ
Al-Jalīl
The Majestic
42 الْكَرِيمُ
Al-Karīm
The Generous

Qurʾān 27:40

43 الرَّقِيبُ
Ar-Raqīb
The Watchful

Qurʾān 4:1

44 الْمُجِيبُ
Al-Mujīb
The Responsive

Qurʾān 11:61

45 الْوَاسِعُ
Al-Wāsiʿ
The All-Encompassing

Qurʾān 2:268

46 الْحَكِيمُ
Al-Ḥakīm
The Most Wise

Qurʾān 31:27

47 الْوَدُودُ
Al-Wadūd
The Most Loving

Qurʾān 85:14

48 الْمَجِيدُ
Al-Majīd
The All-Glorious

Qurʾān 11:73

49 الْبَاعِثُ
Al-Bāʿith
The Resurrector
50 الشَّهِيدُ
Ash-Shahīd
The Witness

Qurʾān 4:166

51 الْحَقُّ
Al-Ḥaqq
The Absolute Truth

Qurʾān 22:62

52 الْوَكِيلُ
Al-Wakīl
The Trustee

Qurʾān 3:173

53 الْقَوِيُّ
Al-Qawī
The Most Strong

Qurʾān 22:40

54 الْمَتِينُ
Al-Matīn
The Firm, Steadfast

Qurʾān 51:58

55 الْوَلِيُّ
Al-Walī
The Protecting Friend

Qurʾān 42:28

56 الْحَمِيدُ
Al-Ḥamīd
The All-Praiseworthy

Qurʾān 14:1

57 الْمُحْصِي
Al-Muḥṣī
The All-Counting
58 الْمُبْدِئُ
Al-Mubdiʾ
The Originator
59 الْمُعِيدُ
Al-Muʿīd
The Restorer
60 الْمُحْيِي
Al-Muḥyī
The Giver of Life

Qurʾān 30:50

61 الْمُمِيتُ
Al-Mumīt
The Taker of Life
62 الْحَيُّ
Al-Ḥayy
The Ever-Living

Qurʾān 2:255

63 الْقَيُّومُ
Al-Qayyūm
The Self-Subsisting

Qurʾān 2:255

64 الْوَاجِدُ
Al-Wājid
The Perceiver
65 الْمَاجِدُ
Al-Mājid
The Illustrious
66 الْوَاحِدُ
Al-Wāḥid
The One

Qurʾān 2:163

67 الْأَحَدُ
Al-Aḥad
The Indivisible

Qurʾān 112:1

68 الصَّمَدُ
Aṣ-Ṣamad
The Eternal Refuge

Qurʾān 112:2

69 الْقَادِرُ
Al-Qādir
The All-Powerful

Qurʾān 6:65

70 الْمُقْتَدِرُ
Al-Muqtadir
The All-Determiner

Qurʾān 54:55

71 الْمُقَدِّمُ
Al-Muqaddim
The Expediter
72 الْمُؤَخِّرُ
Al-Muʾakhkhir
The Delayer
73 الْأَوَّلُ
Al-Awwal
The First

Qurʾān 57:3

74 الْآخِرُ
Al-Ākhir
The Last

Qurʾān 57:3

75 الظَّاهِرُ
Aẓ-Ẓāhir
The Manifest

Qurʾān 57:3

76 الْبَاطِنُ
Al-Bāṭin
The Hidden

Qurʾān 57:3

77 الْوَالِي
Al-Wālī
The Governor
78 الْمُتَعَالِي
Al-Mutaʿālī
The Most Exalted

Qurʾān 13:9

79 الْبَرُّ
Al-Barr
The Source of all Goodness

Qurʾān 52:28

80 التَّوَّابُ
At-Tawwāb
The Accepter of repentance

Qurʾān 2:37

81 الْمُنْتَقِمُ
Al-Muntaqim
The Avenger
82 الْعَفُوُّ
Al-ʿAfū
The Pardoner

Qurʾān 4:99

83 الرَّءُوفُ
Ar-Raʾūf
The Most Kind

Qurʾān 3:30

84 مَالِكُ الْمُلْكِ
Mālik al-Mulk
Owner of all Sovereignty

Qurʾān 3:26

85 ذُو الْجَلَالِ وَالْإِكْرَامِ
Dhul-Jalāl wal-Ikrām
Lord of Majesty and Bounty

Qurʾān 55:27

86 الْمُقْسِطُ
Al-Muqsiṭ
The Equitable
87 الْجَامِعُ
Al-Jāmiʿ
The Gatherer

Qurʾān 3:9

88 الْغَنِيُّ
Al-Ghanī
The Self-Sufficient

Qurʾān 2:267

89 الْمُغْنِي
Al-Mughnī
The Enricher
90 الْمَانِعُ
Al-Māniʿ
The Withholder
91 الضَّارُّ
Aḍ-Ḍārr
The Afflicter
92 النَّافِعُ
An-Nāfiʿ
The Benefactor
93 النُّورُ
An-Nūr
The Light

Qurʾān 24:35

94 الْهَادِي
Al-Hādī
The Guide

Qurʾān 22:54

95 الْبَدِيعُ
Al-Badīʿ
The Incomparable Originator

Qurʾān 2:117

96 الْبَاقِي
Al-Bāqī
The Everlasting
97 الْوَارِثُ
Al-Wārith
The Inheritor of all

Qurʾān 15:23

98 الرَّشِيدُ
Ar-Rashīd
The Guide to the right path
99 الصَّبُورُ
Aṣ-Ṣabūr
The Patient

"Allah has ninety-nine names — one hundred less one. Whoever memorises them will enter Paradise."

— The Prophet ﷺ · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 2736, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2677
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Al-Ghazālī on the names.

Imam al-Ghazālī wrote a dedicated treatise on the meanings of the 99 names, drawing on tafsīr, kalām, and the way of the heart. Our library's Iḥyāʾ carries this tradition forward.

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Tafsīr

The verses where they occur.

Most of the 99 names occur directly in the Qurʾān. Ibn Kathīr's tafsīr walks through the meanings verse by verse — clicking any Qurʾān reference above opens the passage in context.

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