The Beautiful Names of Allah

The 99 Names · Verse Keys

Al-Mateen المتين

The Firm, intensely strong, touched by neither weakness nor fatigue in His actions.

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. 94 ↗

The author explains this name together with: Al-'Azeez, Al-Qadeer, Al-Qaadir, Al-Muqtadir, Al-Qawiyy

Evidence

﴿إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ هُوَ ٱلرَّزَّاقُ ذُو ٱلۡقُوَّةِ ٱلۡمَتِينُ ۝٥٨﴾
Adh-Dhariyat 58

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 متين، ثبّتني على الحق، واجعل إيماني متينًا لا يتزعزع

O Allah, O Al-Mateen, keep me firm upon the truth, and make my faith strong and unshaken.

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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