Oneness and permanence
Al-Qayyūm ٱلْقَيُّوم
The Sustainer of all existence: self-subsisting, and the One by whom everything else subsists.
3 āyāt · 3 sūrahs · root ق و م
Why Allah uses this name
Ibn Kathīr notes that is reported to contain the Greatest Name, and it opens Āyat al-Kursī — the āyah of Allah's absolute maintenance of creation.
Take this with you
Nothing is running on its own. Ask the One holding it up.
The Prophet ﷺ said the Greatest Name of Allah is in these two āyāt: 'And your God is one God' (2:163) and the opening of Āl ʿImrān, 'Alif Lām Mīm. Allah — there is no god but He, .'
Sunan Abī Dāwūd 1496 (ṣaḥīḥ)
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
1 āyah
āyah 2
20. Sūrat Ṭā Hā طه
1 āyah
āyah 111
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-Ḥayy ٱلْحَىّ
The Ever-Living: life that never began and never ends, the ground of every other life.
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.
Al-Awwal ٱلْأَوَّل
The First: nothing preceded Him.