Oneness and permanence
Aẓ-Ẓāhir ٱلظَّاهِر
The Manifest: above everything, evident by His signs.
1 āyāt · 1 sūrah
Why Allah uses this name
From the same : ẓuhūr is height and evidence together — He is not hidden from the one who looks at what He made.
Take this with you
The evidence is not scarce. Attention is.
'…and the Manifest, so there is nothing above You.'
Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2713
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.
57. Sūrat Al-Ḥadīd الحديد
1 āyah
āyah 3
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-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.