Oneness and permanence
Al-Wāḥid ٱلْوَٰحِد
The One: single in His essence, attributes and right to be worshipped.
7 āyāt · 7 sūrahs · root و ح د
Why Allah uses this name
Ibn Kathīr reads waḥdāniyyah as the whole argument of the Makkan sūrahs: many lords cannot govern one ordered world.
Take this with you
Undivided worship follows from an undivided Lord.
'Say: He is Allah, One' (112:1); 'Whose is the kingdom this Day? Allah's, (40:16).
Qurʾān 112:1; 40:16
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.
12. Sūrat Yūsuf يوسف
1 āyah
āyah 39
13. Sūrat Ar-Raʿd الرعد
1 āyah
āyah 16
14. Sūrat Ibrāhīm إبراهيم
1 āyah
āyah 48
37. Sūrat Aṣ-Ṣāffāt الصافات
1 āyah
āyah 4
38. Sūrat Ṣād ص
1 āyah
āyah 65
39. Sūrat Az-Zumar الزمر
1 āyah
āyah 4
40. Sūrat Ghāfir غافر
1 āyah
āyah 16
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-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-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.