The Ninety-Nine Names · the 13th name
الْمُصَوِّر
Al-Musawwir
The Fashioner of Forms
- The rootص و ر
- From the rootsawwara: to give form, shape, a face; surah, an image or a likeness
The essay
The third motion is the particular. Not that a human being exists, but that this one has this face, and no other face in the history of the world has been quite it. The Qur'an says He forms you in the wombs however He wills, and the verb is unhurried. Modern eyes should sit with that: the same species, the same code, and no repetition. He is not a factory. He is an artist who has never made the same thing twice.
In the Qur'an
هُوَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلۡخَٰلِقُ ٱلۡبَارِئُ ٱلۡمُصَوِّرُۖ لَهُ ٱلۡأَسۡمَآءُ ٱلۡحُسۡنَىٰۚ يُسَبِّحُ لَهُۥ مَا فِي ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِۖ وَهُوَ ٱلۡعَزِيزُ ٱلۡحَكِيمُ
He is Allah: the Creator, the Originator, the Fashioner. To Him belong the most beautiful names. All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Him, and He is the Almighty, the Wise.
this Name is in the Qur’an
What it asks of you
Stop wishing you had been issued different equipment. The form was chosen, including the parts you would have edited.
Read beside it
The words