The Beautiful Names of Allah

The 99 Names · Names Most Often Paired in the Quran

Al-Khabeer الخبير

The All-Aware, who knows the inner realities of things just as He knows their outward forms.

Explanation

A detailed explanation of this name (in Arabic) is in: Sharh Asma' Allah al-Husna fi Daw' al-Kitab wa al-Sunnah — Dr. Sa'eed ibn 'Ali ibn Wahf al-Qahtani — p. 89 ↗

The author explains this name together with: Al-'Aleem

Evidence

﴿أَلَا يَعۡلَمُ مَنۡ خَلَقَ وَهُوَ ٱللَّطِيفُ ٱلۡخَبِيرُ ۝١٤﴾
Al-Mulk 14
﴿وَهُوَ ٱلۡقَاهِرُ فَوۡقَ عِبَادِهِۦۚ وَهُوَ ٱلۡحَكِيمُ ٱلۡخَبِيرُ ۝١٨﴾
Al-An'am 18

Call upon Allah by this name

“To Allah belong the Beautiful Names, so call upon Him by them” — Al-A'raf 180

Example for practice
اللهم إنك أنت الخبير بحالي، فاختر لي ما هو خير لي في ديني ودنياي

O Allah, You are Al-Khabeer, fully aware of my state; choose for me what is best for my religion and my worldly life.

An example for practice, not a transmitted text — following the Quranic way of closing a request with the fitting name (see Ibn al-Qayyim, Bada'i' al-Fawa'id 2/249).

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