The Ninety-Nine Names · the 17th name
الرَّزَّاق
Ar-Razzaq
The Provider
- The rootر ز ق
- From the rootrazaqa: to provide what sustains; rizq covers food, wealth, knowledge, a good companion
The essay
Rizq is wider than money. It is everything that comes to you and keeps you going, including the things you did not ask for and did not see coming. The intensive form says the providing does not pause: for every mouth, believing or not, including the animal under the stone. The Qur'an ties this Name to strength in the same breath, and the pairing is deliberate: provision that can be interrupted is not provision, it is luck.
In the Qur'an
إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ هُوَ ٱلرَّزَّاقُ ذُو ٱلۡقُوَّةِ ٱلۡمَتِينُ
It is Allah who is the Provider, the Owner of strength, the Firm.
this Name is in the Qur’an
What it asks of you
Do your work honestly and then stop treating the outcome as yours to force. The provider is not your employer and never was.
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