The Beautiful Names of Allah

The 99 Names · Names Most Often Paired in the Quran

Al-Lateef اللطيف

The Subtle and Gracious, whose knowledge reaches hidden secrets, and who gently brings to His servant what is good for him from where he does not perceive.

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. 116 ↗

Evidence

﴿أَلَا يَعۡلَمُ مَنۡ خَلَقَ وَهُوَ ٱللَّطِيفُ ٱلۡخَبِيرُ ۝١٤﴾
Al-Mulk 14

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 يا لطيف، الطف بي في أموري كلها، ويسّر لي ما عسر عليّ من حيث لا أحتسب

O Allah, O Al-Lateef, be gentle with me in all my affairs, and make easy what is hard for me from where I do not expect.

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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