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Creating and giving life

Al-Muʿīd ٱلْمُعِيد

The Restorer: the One who brings creation back after it has ended.

Reported in the list of ninety-nine · root ع و د

Why Allah uses this name

The pair of in 30:27 and 85:13; Ibn Kathīr reads the pairing as the Qurʾān's standing proof for the Day of Judgement.

Take this with you

What is lost is not gone. He returns what He wills, and He will return you.

'Indeed, it is He who originates and repeats (yubdiʾu wa yuʿīd)' (85:13).

Qurʾān 85:13; the name itself listed in Sunan al-Tirmidhī 3507 (the enumeration of the ninety-nine names)

Where it appears in the Qur'an

This name is reported in the list of ninety-nine, but the Qur'an says it as a verb or a phrase rather than as this single word, so there is no word-for-word occurrence to list. The reasoning above cites the āyāt it is taken from.

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