Al-Khaliq – Al-Khallaq (The Creator), Al-Baari’ (The Originator), Al-Musawwir (The Bestower of Forms)

   

 

Al-Khaliq – Al-Khallaq 

(The Creator), 

Al-Baari’ 

(The Originator),

 Al-Musawwir 

(The Bestower of Forms)

· In Allaah’s Names & Attributes

ٱللَّهُ ٱلۡخَـٰلِقُ ٱلۡبَارِئُ ٱلۡمُصَوِّرُ‌ۖ لَهُ ٱلۡأَسۡمَآءُ ٱلۡحُسۡنَىٰ‌ۚ يُسَبِّحُ لَهُ ۥ مَا فِى ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٲتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِ‌ۖ وَهُوَ ٱلۡعَزِيزُ ٱلۡحَكِيمُ

“He is Allaah the Creator, the Inventor of  all things, the Bestower of forms. To Him belong the Best Names. All that is in the heavens and the earth glorify Him. And he is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise.”

 [Surat al-Hashr (59:24)]

 

Al-Khaliq – Al-Khallaq 

(The Creator) الخَالِق – الْخَلاَّق

Al-Khaliq refers to measuring and proportioning in accordance with His Wisdom.

وَخَلَقَ ڪُلَّ شَىۡءٍ۬ فَقَدَّرَهُ ۥ تَقۡدِيرً۬ا

“He Who created everything, and measured it exactly according to its due measurement.” 

(Al-Furqan 25: 2)

Az-Zajaj said: 

“Al-Khalq (creation) means the initiation of measuring the creation. Allaah (Subhana wa Ta’ala) is the Creator of all that is in existence, Who made everything correct and in its place in accordance to His Wisdom, perfecting it and arranging its affairs. He is continuously doing so.”

فَتَبَارَكَ ٱللَّهُ أَحۡسَنُ ٱلۡخَـٰلِقِينَ

“So blessed be Allaah, the Best of creators.” 

[Al-Muminun (23:14)]

Al-Khallaq (the Supreme Creator) is an intensive and exaggerated form of the Name Khaliq. It has been mentioned in the Qur’an in the following two verses:

إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ الْخَلاَّقُ الْعَلِيم

“Verily, your Lord is the All-Knowing Creator.”

 [Al-Hijr (15:86)]

بَلَى وَهُوَ الْخَلاَّقُ الْعَلِيم

“Yes, indeed! He is the All-Knowing Supreme Creator.” 

[(Ya-Seen 36:81)]

 

Al-Baari’

 (The Inventor of all Things or The Originator) الْبَارِئ

Al-Baari’ means He Who invents and brings into existence what He has created and measured. 

Surely none except Allaah is able to measure, bring forth and create whatever He wills to come to existence.

However not every one plans, measures and estimates a thing is able to execute it and bring it into existence except Allaah.

It should be borne in mind that Allaah’s creation and invention is preceded with His Complete Knowledge of it before its existence.

Al-Musawwir 

(The Bestower of Forms) الْمُصَوِّر

Allaah (Subhana wa Ta’ala) brings into existence anything He wills in the form and the shape He chooses and decides in accordance to His Wisdom. 

He Who made out of His creation different and various types and distinguished them from each other in shapes, qualities, capacities, etc.

هُوَ ٱلَّذِى يُصَوِّرُڪُمۡ فِى ٱلۡأَرۡحَامِ كَيۡفَ يَشَآءُ‌

“He it is Who shapes you in the wombs as He pleases,” 

(Aal-Imran 3:6)

And in Surat al-A’raf (7:11):

وَلَقَدۡ خَلَقۡنَـٰڪُمۡ ثُمَّ صَوَّرۡنَـٰكُمۡ ثُمَّ قُلۡنَا لِلۡمَلَـٰٓٮِٕكَةِ ٱسۡجُدُواْ لِأَدَمَ

“We created you, and then gave you shape (the shape of a human being), then We told the angels, ‘Prostrate to Adam.’”

The impact of believing in these three Mightiest Names:

1- Everything (in this world, in the heavens and on the earth) except Allaah is created and invented, brought into existence after being nothing. 

All the creation was preceded by nothingness as Allaah (Subhana wa Ta’ala) said in Surat al-Insan (76:1):

هل أَتى على الإنسانِ حينٌ مِّنَ الدَّهرِ لَمْ يَكُن شَيْئاً مَّذْكوراً

“Has there not been over man a period of time, when he was nothing to be mentioned?”

2- Whatever and whenever Allaah wills He creates and He is continuously doing so.

وَرَبُّكَ يَخْلُقُ ما يَشاءُ وَيَخْتار

“And your Lord creates whatsoever He wills and chooses.” 

Al-Qasas (28:68)]

3- Allaah’s creation is great and perfect, none of His creation can create anything like it. 

 

As Allaah (Subhana wa Ta’ala) said:

هَـٰذَا خَلۡقُ ٱللَّهِ فَأَرُونِى مَاذَا خَلَقَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن دُونِهِۦ‌

“This is the Creation of Allaah. So show Me that which those (whom you worship), besides Him have created.” 

[Luqman (31:11)]

In this verse there is a challenge for all the creation among the jinns and mankind.

Allaah (Subhana wa Ta’ala) affirmed the failure of His creation in creating even a weak and small creation as a fly, as He (‘Azza wa Jall) said in Surat al-Hajj (22:73-74):

يا أَيُّها النَّاسُ ضُرِبَ مَثَلٌ فاسْتَمِعوا لَهُ، إِنَّ الَّذينَ تَدعونَ مِن دونِ اللهِ لَن يَخْلُقوا ذُباباً ولَوِ اجْتمعوا لَهُ، وإِن يَسلُبْهُمُ الذُّبابُ شَيْئاً لاَّ يَسْتَنقِذوهُ مِنْهُ ضَعُفَ الطَّالِبُ والمطلوب. ما قَدَروا اللهَ حَقَّ قَدْرِهِ، إِنَّ اللهَ لَقَوِيٌّ عزيزٌ

“O mankind! A similitude has been presented, so listen to it (carefully): 

Verily! These on whom you call besides Allaah, cannot create (even) a fly, even though they combine together for the purpose. 

And if the fly snatched away a thing from them, they would have no power to release it from the fly. 

So weak are (both) the seeker and the sought. 

They have not estimated Allaah His Rightful Estimate; Verily, Allaah is All-Strong, All-Mighty.”

 

WALLAHU A'LAM ..

 

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