Oneness and permanence
Al-Ḥayy ٱلْحَىّ
The Ever-Living: life that never began and never ends, the ground of every other life.
14 āyāt · 10 sūrahs · root ح ي ي
Why Allah uses this name
Al-Saʿdī reads as the two names all others return to: perfect attributes of self, and perfect action toward creation.
Take this with you
Attach your needs to the One who does not die — everyone else you rely on will.
'And rely upon the Ever-Living who does not die, and exalt Him with praise' (25:58).
Qurʾān 25:58
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
1 āyah
āyah 255
3. Sūrat Āl ʿImrān آل عمران
2 āyahs
āyah 2, 27
6. Sūrat Al-Anʿām الأنعام
1 āyah
āyah 95
10. Sūrat Yūnus يونس
1 āyah
āyah 31
19. Sūrat Maryam مريم
4 āyahs
āyah 15, 31, 33, 66
20. Sūrat Ṭā Hā طه
1 āyah
āyah 111
25. Sūrat Al-Furqān الفرقان
1 āyah
āyah 58
30. Sūrat Ar-Rūm الروم
1 āyah
āyah 19
40. Sūrat Ghāfir غافر
1 āyah
āyah 65
53. Sūrat An-Najm النجم
1 āyah
āyah 4
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
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-Muḥyī ٱلْمُحْيِى
The Giver of Life: the One who gives life to the dead earth and to the dead.
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.