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الْخَافِضُAl Khaafid
The Abaser
Scroll on for a reflection, and where you’ll meet it
Reflection
Khafḍ is lowering — and the same root gives the Qur’an’s phrase for lowering a wing, which is how Arabic pictures gentleness: lower to your ageing parents the wing of humility, out of mercy.
The written form of the name is not in the Qur’anic text; it belongs to the received list, paired there with ar-Rāfiʿ. The two participles do stand together once, though, and not of God but of the Day itself: khāfiḍatun rāfiʿa, bringing down and raising up, a whole ayah two words long. Being brought low is not the same as being pushed down.
Where you’ll meet it
A few of the ayat where this name’s written form appears.