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Al-Mutakabbir
The Supreme in Greatness
Greatness that belongs exclusively to Allah; all created greatness is borrowed dignity, while His is the attribute of the Essence.
Reflecting on Al-Mutakabbir, the believer knows that all greatness, majesty, and grandeur belong exclusively to Allah, while every dignity found in creation is nothing more than a borrowed loan from His treasury. This realisation kindles a deep humility in the heart, so the servant walks upon the earth with quiet modesty, refusing to inflate the self with what was never truly his to own. Yet this humility before Allah does not diminish the believer; rather, it liberates him from cringing before creation, for the one whose neck bows only to the Supreme in Greatness need never bow it before any other. He strives in his affairs with earnest effort, wears the garment of contentment over his station, and places his full trust in the One whose Majesty alone endures — certain that true honour is granted only to those who recognise where all greatness truly resides.
In Surah Al-Hashr (59:23), Al-Jabbar immediately precedes Al-Mutakabbir, pairing the attribute of irresistible compelling power with supreme greatness so that divine majesty is understood as both effective sovereignty over creation and transcendent loftiness above it.
Appearing in the same verse (59:23) just before Al-Jabbar and Al-Mutakabbir, Al-Aziz balances Al-Mutakabbir by grounding His inaccessible greatness in unassailable might, showing that His kibriyā' is not mere claim but is defended by an overpowering 'izzah none can breach.
Opening the sequence of names in 59:23 that culminates in Al-Mutakabbir, Al-Malik frames supreme greatness within rightful sovereignty, teaching that Allah's kibriyā' is the legitimate prerogative of the true King rather than the blameworthy arrogance forbidden to creatures who possess no dominion.
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