KNOWLEDGE

THE NAME OF ALLAH, AL-GHANIY is mentioned eighteen times in the Qur’an.

WHO IS AL-GHANIY?

ALLAH IS THE MOST RICH HIMSELF

• He has absolute richness due to His perfect names, attributes and actions.
• From the perfection of His richness, He does not benefit from the obedience of the obedient, nor He is harmed by the disobedience of the disobedient. If all the inhabitants of the earth were to believe, it would not increase anything of His dominion, and if all of them were to disbelieve, it would not diminish anything from His dominion.
• From the perfection of His richness, He is free from having partners or rivals. How can something made of dust be equal to the Lord of the lords? How can the one who is poor, weak, incapable and needy, be equal to the One Who is Rich, Able, Powerful and Self-Sufficient?
• From the perfection of His richness, if all the inhabitants of the heavens and the earth, the first of them and the last of them, were to gather on a plain and ask Him for all they want at the same time, and He were to give them all their requests, it would not diminish anything from His richness.

ALLAH IS THE ENRICHER

• GENERAL ENRICHMENT for all the creation in order to survive in this life.
• SPECIAL ENRICHMENT for His believing slaves by flooding their hearts with divine understandings and faith. The more one believes, the more Allah enriches Him.

IMPACTS

• Whoever knows his Lord with this great attribute will know himself. Whoever knows his Lord has absolute richness, knows he has absolute poverty. Whoever knows his Lord has complete ability, knows he has complete inability. The poorer we are to Allah, the more He will enrich us, and He knows best what will enrich us.
• Ask Allah for all types of enrichment. Enrichment is not only material, but richness and satisfaction of the heart.

IN THE QUR’AN

وَمَن يَبْخَلْ فَإِنَّمَا يَبْخَلُ عَن نَّفْسِهِ ۚ وَاللَّهُ الْغَنِيُّ وَأَنتُمُ الْفُقَرَاءُ ۚ وَإِن تَتَوَلَّوْا يَسْتَبْدِلْ قَوْمًا غَيْرَكُمْ ثُمَّ لَا يَكُونُوا أَمْثَالَكُم

“And whoever is niggardly, it is only at the expense of his ownself. But Allah is Rich (Free of all wants), and you (mankind) are poor. And if you turn away (from Islam and the obedience of Allah), He will exchange you for some other people, and they will not be your likes.”

[Surah Muhammad [47:38]]

وَمَن شَكَرَ فَإِنَّمَا يَشْكُرُ لِنَفْسِهِ ۖ وَمَن كَفَرَ فَإِنَّ رَبِّي غَنِيٌّ كَرِيم

“And whoever is grateful, truly, his gratitude is for (the good of) his ownself, and whoever is ungrateful, (he is ungrateful only for the loss of his ownself). Certainly! My Lord is Rich (Free of all wants), Bountiful.”

[Surah An-Naml [27:40]]