Whose knowledge and mercy encompass all
Names of knowing, seeing, hearing, watching and guiding.
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Al-Wasi'
Whose knowledge and mercy encompass all
Knowledge and guidance
Al-Wasi' points to the meaning: whose knowledge and mercy encompass all. It is read as a divine perfection, never reduced to the limited qualities of creation.
From knowing to conduct.
Remembering divine knowledge nurtures honesty in speech and care in judgment.
04 / Prayer with this name“O Al-Wasi'; Show us truth as truth; enable us to act on knowledge and seek guidance when we do not know.”
A reflective prayer based on the meaning
This page follows a widely transmitted 99-name sequence. Exact Quranic wording, derivation from the same root and occurrence in a transmitted list are distinct; no verse attribution is made without that distinction.