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The 99 Names · Name 81 of 99 · In a pair

الْمُنْتَقِمُ

al-Muntaqim

The Requiter of wrongdoing

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Say it: al-Muntaqim. A recording by our own reciter is on its way.

Heard together with: al-ʿAfuww / al-Muntaqim (contrast)

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.

Retribution belongs to God so that it need not belong to us.Read: 3:4; 32:22.

On screen

Dantès makes himself the instrument of vengeance and ends with 'wait and hope'. Scripture starts there: leave it to God.

Where it shows up

In scripture: Q 3:4; 32:22; 4:149; Rom 12:19; Ps 94:1.
The same thread in Jewish and Christian scripture: Ps 94:1; Nahum 1:2 (same root n-q-m); Rom 12:19. Strong but sensitive.
In the universe: —
In nature: Consequences: cause and effect.
In people: Restorative justice.
In science: —

Living it

Humility: leave vengeance; pursue justice through law; prefer pardon (42:40).

Its kind

In a pair: a hard Name, always heard beside its partner.

In the Qur'an: 32:22 (plural participle); 3:4 (dhū ntiqām)

Sources for this page

gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1184; api.quran.com