The Ninety-Nine Names · the 7th name
الْمُهَيْمِن
Al-Muhaymin
The Guardian who watches over all
- The rootه م ن
- From the roothaymana: to watch over, to stand guard above, to have charge of
The essay
Al-Muhaymin is the guardian who is over the thing, not beside it. The Qur'an uses the same word of itself in relation to the scriptures before it: standing over them as witness and criterion. Applied to Him it gathers three things at once: He sees all of it, He preserves all of it, He has authority over all of it. A watchman who cannot act is only a spectator; a ruler who cannot see rules blind. Here nothing is missing.
In the Qur'an
هُوَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِي لَآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ٱلۡمَلِكُ ٱلۡقُدُّوسُ ٱلسَّلَٰمُ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنُ ٱلۡمُهَيۡمِنُ ٱلۡعَزِيزُ ٱلۡجَبَّارُ ٱلۡمُتَكَبِّرُۚ سُبۡحَٰنَ ٱللَّهِ عَمَّا يُشۡرِكُونَ
He is Allah, other than whom there is no god: the King, the Most Holy, the Peace, the Giver of Security, the Guardian over all, the Almighty, the Compeller, the Supreme. Glory be to Allah, far above all they set beside Him.
this Name is in the Qur’an
What it asks of you
Behave in the empty room the way you behave in the full one. There is no empty room.
Read beside it
The words