Oneness and permanence
Al-Bāṭin ٱلْبَاطِن
The Hidden: closer than anything, beyond the reach of sight and imagination.
1 āyāt · 1 sūrah
Why Allah uses this name
Completing the prophetic gloss: nothing is nearer than Him, and no perception encompasses Him.
Take this with you
Unseen is not absent. He is nearer than what you can see.
'…and the Hidden, so there is nothing beyond 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.
57. Sūrat Al-Ḥadīd الحديد
1 āyah
āyah 3
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.