The 99 Names of Allah

الله

The proper and exclusive name of the Creator, Lord of all existence. This name encompasses all divine attributes and is unique to Allah, being used for no other being.

الرَّحْمَنُ

The One whose mercy encompasses all creation in this world, believers and disbelievers alike. This name indicates the vast, all-encompassing mercy of Allah.

الرَّحِيمُ

The One whose special mercy is reserved for the believers in the Hereafter. This mercy is specific and directed towards those who believe and do righteous deeds.

الْمَلِكُ

The absolute Owner and Ruler of all creation, whose dominion is complete and unchallenged. He rules without need of any minister or assistant.

الْقُدُّوسُ

The One who is utterly free and far removed from every imperfection, deficiency, and impurity. He is wholly pure and perfect in every aspect.

السَّلَامُ

The One who is free from all faults and imperfections, and who grants peace and safety to His creation. His name is greeted in Paradise: "Peace!" is the word from a Merciful Lord.

الْمُؤْمِنُ

The One who grants security and safety to His creation, and who has affirmed the truth of His Oneness. He is the source of all true security and faith.

الْمُهَيْمِنُ

The One who watches over and protects all of His creation, who has complete knowledge and oversight of everything. He is the ultimate Protector and Overseer.

الْعَزِيزُ

The One who is absolutely invincible and unconquerable, whose power no one can resist. He is mighty in power, and none can overcome Him.

الْجَبَّارُ

The One who compels and restores all things to their right order. He sets right what is broken and reforms what is corrupt, and His will cannot be resisted.

الْمُتَكَبِّرُ

The One who possesses all greatness and grandeur exclusively; all true greatness belongs to Him alone. Pride is His cloak and greatness is His garment, as stated in the hadith qudsi.

الْخَالِقُ

The One who creates from nothing, who brings all things into existence having determined their nature and measured them precisely. He creates without any precedent or model.

الْبَارِئُ

The One who creates things and distinguishes them from one another, creating each creature with its own distinct characteristics and qualities.

الْمُصَوِّرُ

The One who gives each created thing its own unique form and appearance. He shapes and fashions every creature exactly as He wills.

الْغَفَّارُ

The One who forgives sins repeatedly and continually. No matter how many times a servant sins and repents, Allah forgives again and again. The word "Ghaffar" indicates constant and repeated forgiveness.

الْقَهَّارُ

The One who has absolute dominion over all things and all creation, subduing everything to His will. Every mighty and powerful thing is utterly subdued before Him.

الْوَهَّابُ

The One who gives abundantly and freely without expecting anything in return. He bestows His gifts out of generosity alone, not because of any merit on the part of the recipient.

الرَّزَّاقُ

The One who provides sustenance for all of creation. He is the original source of all provisions; every morsel of food and every blessing ultimately comes from Him.

الْفَتَّاحُ

The One who opens the doors of mercy, provision, and victory for His servants. He resolves difficulties and matters that are closed to human understanding.

الْعَلِيمُ

The One whose knowledge is perfect and encompasses all things: the seen and unseen, the past, present, and future, the innermost thoughts of hearts, and every atom in existence.

الْقَابِضُ

The One who withholds and constricts as He wills, whether provision, souls, or anything else. This is exercised according to His infinite wisdom, never arbitrarily.

الْبَاسِطُ

The One who extends and expands, giving abundantly as He wills. He expands provision, mercy, and all goodness for His creation.

الْخَافِضُ

The One who lowers and humbles those who are proud and arrogant, and those who oppose the truth. He brings down whatever He wills according to His perfect wisdom.

الرَّافِعُ

The One who elevates and raises whoever He wills: the righteous, the believers, and the obedient. He elevates people in status, rank, and honour.

الْمُعِزُّ

The One who grants honour and dignity to those He wills. True honour comes from Allah alone, and He bestows it upon the obedient and righteous.

الْمُذِلُّ

The One who disgraces and humbles those He wills, such as the arrogant, the oppressors, and the enemies of truth. Humiliation from Allah is the ultimate humiliation.

السَّمِيعُ

The One who hears all sounds and voices, no matter how soft or distant. He hears every whisper, every prayer, every complaint, and every thought that is expressed.

الْبَصِيرُ

The One who sees all things, no matter how small or hidden. No action escapes His sight; He sees what is in the depths of the seas and in the darkest of nights.

الْحَكَمُ

The One who judges between His creation with complete justice and perfect knowledge. His judgement is final and cannot be overturned.

الْعَدْلُ

The One who is perfectly and absolutely just in all His actions and decrees. He never wrongs anyone; He gives every right its due.

اللَّطِيفُ

The One who is gentle, subtle, and kind with His servants, and whose knowledge reaches the finest and most hidden details of all things. He reaches His servants through subtle and gentle means they may not perceive.

الْخَبِيرُ

The One who is completely and perfectly aware of all things, the external and internal, the apparent and the hidden. He has full knowledge of every detail.

الْحَلِيمُ

The One who does not hasten to punish despite witnessing sin and disobedience. He is patient with His creation and delays punishment, giving time for repentance.

الْعَظِيمُ

The One who is immeasurably great; whose greatness is beyond all comprehension or description. Every form of true greatness belongs exclusively to Him.

الْغَفُورُ

The One who forgives all sins, no matter how great or how many, for those who sincerely repent and seek His forgiveness. The door of His forgiveness is never closed.

الشَّكُورُ

The One who acknowledges and rewards the good deeds of His servants abundantly, rewarding even the smallest act of goodness manifold.

الْعَلِيُّ

The One who is the Most High, above all things in His essence, attributes, and power. He is exalted above all creation, above all that anyone can imagine.

الْكَبِيرُ

The One who is the Greatest; His greatness is beyond any measurement or comparison. All greatness belongs to Him and everything else is diminished beside His greatness.

الْحَفِيظُ

The One who preserves and protects all things. He maintains the heavens and earth and everything in them, and He preserves the deeds of His servants to be accounted for.

الْمُقِيتُ

The One who provides and sustains all creatures with what they need for their bodies and spirits. He nourishes and provides the right sustenance for each creature.

الْحَسِيبُ

The One who takes account of all deeds and who suffices His servants. He knows every detail of every act and will bring full reckoning on the Day of Judgement.

الْجَلِيلُ

The One who possesses absolute majesty: perfect power, knowledge, glory, and transcendence. His majesty is absolute and beyond comparison.

الْكَرِيمُ

The One who is supremely generous and noble: He gives without being asked, He forgives without being begged, and He is never diminished by His giving.

الرَّقِيبُ

The One who observes and watches all things at all times, from whom nothing is hidden. He is the constant observer of all hearts, words, and deeds.

الْمُجِيبُ

The One who answers all prayers and supplications, who responds to all who call upon Him. He says: "Call upon Me; I will respond to you."

الْوَاسِعُ

The One whose mercy, knowledge, and generosity are boundless and all-encompassing. His mercy encompasses all things: 'And My mercy encompasses all things.'

الْحَكِيمُ

The One who is perfectly wise in all His actions, judgements, and decrees. His wisdom is absolute; everything He does is exactly right and appropriate, even when human understanding cannot comprehend it.

الْوَدُودُ

The One who loves His believing servants with a deep and perfect love, and who is loved by them. He is not merely One who is loved; He is One who loves.

الْمَجِيدُ

The One who is glorious in His essence, attributes, and actions. His glory is of the highest degree: perfect beauty combined with absolute perfection.

الْبَاعِثُ

The One who will resurrect all of creation on the Day of Judgement from their graves for the final reckoning. He gives life back after death.

الشَّهِيدُ

The One who witnesses all things and is present and aware of everything. No secret is hidden from Him; He is witness to all that happens in the heavens and the earth.

الْحَقُّ

The One who is the ultimate and absolute Truth: His existence is true, His attributes are true, His words are true, His promise is true, and meeting Him is true.

الْوَكِيلُ

The One who is the ultimate trustee and disposer of all affairs. Those who place their complete trust in Him will find Him the best of all trustees.

الْقَوِيُّ

The One whose strength is perfect and absolute. He is never weakened by anything and His strength never diminishes.

الْمَتِينُ

The One who possesses absolute firmness and strength. His power cannot be weakened by any force or number.

الْوَلِيُّ

The One who is the guardian, ally, and protecting friend of His righteous servants. He takes care of their affairs in this world and the next.

الْحَمِيدُ

The One who is deserving of all praise in the most perfect and complete manner. All praise belongs to Him whether or not people acknowledge it.

الْمُحْصِي

The One who has exact count and knowledge of everything. Not a leaf falls without His knowledge; He counts every atom and every act.

الْمُبْدِئُ

The One who begins the creation of all things without any preceding example or model. He creates ex nihilo - from nothing.

الْمُعِيدُ

The One who brings creation back after it has ceased. He will restore all to life on the Day of Resurrection.

الْمُحْيِي

The One who gives life to everything that lives, both in the first creation and in the resurrection.

الْمُمِيتُ

The One who brings about death at the appointed time. Death is entirely in His hands; no soul can die except by His leave.

الْحَيُّ

The One who is absolutely and eternally alive, with a perfect and complete life that had no beginning and will have no end. His life is unlike the life of any created thing.

الْقَيُّومُ

The One who exists by Himself, needing nothing, while sustaining and maintaining all of creation. All existence depends on Him; He depends on nothing.

الْوَاجِدُ

The One who finds what He wills when He wills, for nothing is difficult or lost to Him. He perceives everything and lacks nothing.

الْمَاجِدُ

The One who is illustrious and honourable; possessing both perfect glory and perfect generosity.

الْوَاحِدُ

The One who is single and unique in His Lordship, Names, Attributes, and right to be worshipped. There is nothing like unto Him.

الْأَحَدُ

The One who is uniquely singular: He has no partner, no equal, no son, no father. His oneness is absolute.

الصَّمَدُ

The One who is the eternally besought of all needs. All creation is in need of Him; He is in need of nothing. He is the perfect master to whom all turn in need.

الْقَادِرُ

The One who has perfect and complete power over all things. He is able to do anything He wills; there is nothing that is beyond His power.

الْمُقْتَدِرُ

The One who exercises His power at all times over all things, with complete and perfect control. His power is enacted and exercised in every moment.

الْمُقَدِّمُ

The One who puts things or people forward at exactly the right time and place, according to His perfect wisdom.

الْمُؤَخِّرُ

The One who delays things or people to exactly the right time, in perfect accordance with His wisdom and justice.

الْأَوَّلُ

The One before whom there is nothing: no beginning preceded His existence. He is the First without any prior beginning.

الْآخِرُ

The One after whom there is nothing: His existence will remain after all else has ended. He is the Last without any ending after Him.

الظَّاهِرُ

The One who is manifest through the signs of His existence, power, and perfection that are evident throughout creation. He is evident above all through the testimony of His creation.

الْبَاطِنُ

The One who is hidden from the sight and perception of creation in His essence. His essence cannot be perceived or comprehended by created beings.

الْوَالِي

The One who governs and administers all of creation with complete authority and perfect management.

الْمُتَعَالِي

The One who is exalted above all things in the most perfect and absolute manner. He is far above and beyond all that the human mind can conceive.

الْبَرُّ

The One who is abundantly and perfectly good to His servants. All true goodness comes from Him and returns to Him.

التَّوَّابُ

The One who constantly accepts repentance from His servants and returns to them with forgiveness. "Tawwab" indicates continuous and repeated acceptance of repentance.

الْمُنْتَقِمُ

The One who takes retribution from those who persist in wrong and oppression. His vengeance is an expression of His perfect justice.

الْعَفُوُّ

The One who pardons and obliterates sins, removing them completely as if they never existed. The Prophet ﷺ taught that one should ask: 'O Allah, You are the Pardoner; You love to pardon. So pardon me.'

الرَّءُوفُ

The One who is very kind and clement. This is an even more intensive form of mercy than Ar-Rahim, indicating extraordinary tenderness and gentleness.

مَالِكُ الْمُلْكِ

The One who possesses absolute sovereignty over all kingdoms and all dominions. He gives sovereignty to whom He wills and withholds it from whom He wills.

ذُو الْجَلَالِ وَالْإِكْرَامِ

The One who possesses absolute majesty and immeasurable generosity: the Most Majestic and the Most Generous of all.

الْمُقْسِطُ

The One who executes justice with absolute equity. He deals with all of His creation with complete impartiality and fairness.

الْجَامِعُ

The One who will gather all of creation on the Day of Judgement, and who gathers all of His perfect attributes simultaneously without any contradiction.

الْغَنِيُّ

The One who is absolutely self-sufficient and rich, needing nothing and no one. All creation is in need of Him; He is in need of nothing whatsoever.

الْمُغْنِي

The One who makes whoever He wills rich and self-sufficient. He is the source of all true wealth and freedom from need.

الْمَانِعُ

The One who withholds and prevents whatever He wills, according to His infinite wisdom. What He prevents is prevented; what He allows comes to pass.

الضَّارُّ

The One who creates harm and affliction as He wills, which always serves a greater wisdom: purification, testing, or punishment.

النَّافِعُ

The One who creates all benefit. Every blessing and benefit in creation comes ultimately from Him.

النُّورُ

The One who is the Light of the heavens and the earth. He illuminates creation both outwardly and inwardly. The Quran and faith are both described as His light.

الْهَادِي

The One who guides His servants to truth, to the right path, and to happiness in this world and the next. Guidance belongs to Allah alone.

الْبَدِيعُ

The One who creates without any precedent or model. He is the Originator of things in a way that is unprecedented: 'The Originator of the heavens and the earth.'

الْبَاقِي

The One who is everlasting and eternal, who will remain after all of creation has perished. He has no end, as He has no beginning.

الْوَارِثُ

The One who inherits all that exists: after all of creation ceases to be, He alone will remain, and all things will return to Him.

الصَّبُورُ

The One who is immensely patient and does not hasten to punish those who disobey Him. He gives respite and opportunity for repentance before the final reckoning.