Knowledge and awareness
Ar-Raqīb ٱلرَّقِيب
The Ever-Watchful, whose watch never lapses for a moment.
5 āyāt · 5 sūrahs · root ر ق ب
Why Allah uses this name
Ibn Kathīr places it where private conduct is at stake — wealth, family, secret dealings — because the name removes the idea of an unobserved moment.
Take this with you
There is no private life in front of Allah, only a less public one.
'Indeed Allah is ever, over you, (4:1).
Qurʾān 4:1
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.
4. Sūrat An-Nisāʾ النساء
1 āyah
āyah 1
5. Sūrat Al-Māʾidah المائدة
1 āyah
āyah 117
11. Sūrat Hūd هود
1 āyah
āyah 93
33. Sūrat Al-Aḥzāb الأحزاب
1 āyah
āyah 52
50. Sūrat Qāf ق
1 āyah
āyah 18
Names close to this one
Al-ʿAlīm ٱلْعَلِيم
The All-Knowing: His knowledge covers the hidden and the open, the past and what has not yet happened.
As-Samīʿ ٱلسَّمِيع
The All-Hearing: He hears every voice, in every language, including the one raised in secret.
Al-Baṣīr ٱلْبَصِير
The All-Seeing: nothing is too small, too dark or too distant for His sight.
Al-Khabīr ٱلْخَبِير
The All-Aware: knowledge of the inward reality of things, their secrets and motives.
Al-Ḥakīm ٱلْحَكِيم
The All-Wise: He places everything exactly where it belongs, in creation and in command.
Ash-Shahīd ٱلشَّهِيد
The Witness, present to everything, who will testify on the Day of Judgement.
Al-Muḥṣī ٱلْمُحْصِى
The Reckoner of all things: the One who has counted and enumerated everything, exactly.