Knowledge and awareness
Al-Baṣīr ٱلْبَصِير
The All-Seeing: nothing is too small, too dark or too distant for His sight.
45 āyāt · 26 sūrahs · root ب ص ر
Why Allah uses this name
Al-Saʿdī reads it as seeing joined to insight into what deeds deserve — so it seals passages about conduct, warning that action is watched, not only known.
Take this with you
Worship as one who is seen: that is the definition of .
The Prophet ﷺ said: ' is to worship Allah as though you see Him; and if you do not see Him, He surely sees you.'
Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 8
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.
2. Sūrat Al-Baqarah البقرة
4 āyahs
āyah 110, 233, 237, 265
3. Sūrat Āl ʿImrān آل عمران
3 āyahs
āyah 15, 20, 156
4. Sūrat An-Nisāʾ النساء
2 āyahs
āyah 58, 134
6. Sūrat Al-Anʿām الأنعام
1 āyah
āyah 50
8. Sūrat Al-Anfāl الأنفال
2 āyahs
āyah 39, 72
11. Sūrat Hūd هود
2 āyahs
āyah 24, 112
13. Sūrat Ar-Raʿd الرعد
1 āyah
āyah 16
17. Sūrat Al-Isrāʾ الإسراء
4 āyahs
āyah 1, 17, 30, 96
20. Sūrat Ṭā Hā طه
2 āyahs
āyah 35, 125
22. Sūrat Al-Ḥajj الحج
2 āyahs
āyah 61, 75
25. Sūrat Al-Furqān الفرقان
1 āyah
āyah 20
31. Sūrat Luqmān لقمان
1 āyah
āyah 28
33. Sūrat Al-Aḥzāb الأحزاب
1 āyah
āyah 9
34. Sūrat Sabaʾ سبأ
1 āyah
āyah 11
35. Sūrat Fāṭir فاطر
3 āyahs
āyah 19, 31, 45
40. Sūrat Ghāfir غافر
4 āyahs
āyah 20, 44, 56, 58
41. Sūrat Fuṣṣilat فصلت
1 āyah
āyah 40
42. Sūrat Ash-Shūrā الشورى
2 āyahs
āyah 11, 27
48. Sūrat Al-Fatḥ الفتح
1 āyah
āyah 24
57. Sūrat Al-Ḥadīd الحديد
1 āyah
āyah 4
58. Sūrat Al-Mujādilah المجادلة
1 āyah
āyah 1
60. Sūrat Al-Mumtaḥanah الممتحنة
1 āyah
āyah 3
64. Sūrat At-Taghābun التغابن
1 āyah
āyah 2
67. Sūrat Al-Mulk الملك
1 āyah
āyah 19
76. Sūrat Al-Insān الإنسان
1 āyah
āyah 2
84. Sūrat Al-Inshiqāq الانشقاق
1 āyah
āyah 15
Names it closes āyāt with
The Qur'an often seals an āyah with two names together. These are the pairings this name appears in most.
Names close to this one
Al-ʿAlīm ٱلْعَلِيم
The All-Knowing: His knowledge covers the hidden and the open, the past and what has not yet happened.
As-Samīʿ ٱلسَّمِيع
The All-Hearing: He hears every voice, in every language, including the one raised in secret.
Al-Khabīr ٱلْخَبِير
The All-Aware: knowledge of the inward reality of things, their secrets and motives.
Ar-Raqīb ٱلرَّقِيب
The Ever-Watchful, whose watch never lapses for a moment.
Al-Ḥakīm ٱلْحَكِيم
The All-Wise: He places everything exactly where it belongs, in creation and in command.
Ash-Shahīd ٱلشَّهِيد
The Witness, present to everything, who will testify on the Day of Judgement.
Al-Muḥṣī ٱلْمُحْصِى
The Reckoner of all things: the One who has counted and enumerated everything, exactly.