Oneness and permanence
Al-Ākhir ٱلْآخِر
The Last: nothing remains after Him.
1 āyāt · 1 sūrah
Why Allah uses this name
Explained in the same prophetic duʿāʾ as — the four names together fix Allah in time and place beyond every creature.
Take this with you
Every loss is temporary; the One you are left with is permanent.
'…and the Last, so there is nothing after You.'
Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2713
Where it appears in the Qur'an
Counted from the muṣḥaf text as served by the Quran.com API. A few occurrences describe someone other than Allah; read the āyah in place to see which.
75. Sūrat Al-Qiyāmah القيامة
1 āyah
āyah 13
Names close to this one
Allāh ٱللَّٰه
The proper name of the Divine Being: the One truly worshipped, to whom every other name returns as a description.
Al-Ḥaqq ٱلْحَقّ
The Truth: the One whose being and whose word are real, beside whom everything called upon is false.
Al-Ḥayy ٱلْحَىّ
The Ever-Living: life that never began and never ends, the ground of every other life.
Al-Qayyūm ٱلْقَيُّوم
The Sustainer of all existence: self-subsisting, and the One by whom everything else subsists.
Al-Wājid ٱلْوَاجِد
The Finder who lacks nothing: everything He wills is present to Him, and nothing escapes Him.
Al-Wāḥid ٱلْوَٰحِد
The One: single in His essence, attributes and right to be worshipped.
Al-Aḥad ٱلْأَحَد
The Unique One who has no second of any kind — not in essence, not in attribute.
Aṣ-Ṣamad ٱلصَّمَد
The Eternal Refuge: the One everything turns to in need, who needs nothing Himself.