Iqra

Learn the Qur’an, one ayah at a time.

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الْمُعِيدُ

Al Mu'eed

The Restorer

Scroll on for a reflection, and where you’ll meet it

Reflection

ʿĀda is to come back — the root that gives ʿīd its name, a day that returns, which is the word Isa uses when he asks for a table from heaven that will be a festival for his people.

Al-Muʿīd is the twin of al-Mubdiʾ, and like it this written form is not in the Qur’anic text; the verb they both come from is. A beginning that can come round again is a different mercy from one that happens only once. Most of what we call starting over is really this word.

Where you’ll meet it

A few of the ayat where this name’s written form appears.