The Ninety-Nine Names · the 8th name
الْعَزِيز
Al-'Aziz
The Almighty, whom nothing overcomes
- The rootع ز ز
- From the root'azza: to be strong, rare, precious, and unreachable
The essay
The root holds two ideas that English separates: strength and preciousness. What is truly strong cannot be worn down; what is truly precious cannot be replaced. Al-'Aziz is the One nothing overcomes and nothing is like. The Qur'an almost always pairs it with another Name: the Mighty, the Wise; the Mighty, the Forgiving, because raw might unqualified is exactly what people fear in their rulers, and He does not present Himself that way even once.
In the Qur'an
هُوَ ٱلَّذِي يُصَوِّرُكُمۡ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡحَامِ كَيۡفَ يَشَآءُۚ لَآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ٱلۡعَزِيزُ ٱلۡحَكِيمُ
It is He who shapes you in the wombs however He wills. There is no god but Him, the Almighty, the Wise.
this Name is in the Qur’an
What it asks of you
When you are wronged and cannot answer, take the case to the One nobody overrules. Then stop rehearsing the argument.
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The words