The Beautiful Names of Allah

The 99 Names · Names Most Often Paired in the Quran

Al-Mubeen المبين

The One who makes clear to His servants the path of guidance, explaining what they should do and what they should leave.

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. 200 ↗

Evidence

﴿يَوۡمَئِذࣲ يُوَفِّيهِمُ ٱللَّهُ دِينَهُمُ ٱلۡحَقَّ وَيَعۡلَمُونَ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ هُوَ ٱلۡحَقُّ ٱلۡمُبِينُ ۝٢٥﴾
An-Nur 25

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 مبين، بيّن لي الحق وارزقني اتباعه، وبيّن لي الباطل وارزقني اجتنابه

O Allah, O Al-Mubeen, show me the truth and grant me to follow it, and show me falsehood and grant me to avoid it.

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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