The 99 Names · Name 15 of 99 · In a pair
الْقَهَّارُal-Qahhār
The Ever-Dominant, before whom every power yields
Say it: al-Qahhār. A recording by our own reciter is on its way.
Heard together with: al-Wāḥid al-Qahhār
A Name heard in its pair
Classical teachers said Names like this one are always spoken beside their partner, so that power is never heard without mercy, or holding back without giving. So there is no ladder here: nothing in us climbs towards it.
On screen
Thanos needed six stones and a gauntlet to overpower half the universe, and it nearly destroyed him. al-Qahhār needs nothing to prevail.
Where it shows up
- In scripture
- Q 13:16; 39:4; 40:16. Isaiah 40:23 'brings potentates to naught'
- The same thread in Jewish and Christian scripture
- Weak (no close parallel)
- In the universe
- Entropy and the far future: stars burn out
- In nature
- Seasonal cycles: Frozen Planet II
- In people
- Empires as sandcastles: historical decline
- In science
- Physics: second law of thermodynamics: entropy of an isolated system does not decrease
Sources for this page
Wikipedia Infinity Stones; api.quran.com; hadith-api Bukhari 3194