Al-Matin
Al-Matin is the Firm — strength that is solid and unyielding, which no effort wears down.
Name 54 of 99
الْمَتِينُ
Al-Matin
The Firm
- In Arabic
- الْمَتِينُ
- Transliteration
- Al-Matin
- Position in the list
- Name 54 of 99
Al-Matin — The Firm
What the name means
Matn in Arabic is the firm ground, the solid back of a thing. Where al-Qawiyy names the strength itself, al-Matin names its steadiness — power that does not slacken.
The two meet in the verse on provision: Allah is the Provider, Owner of Power, the Firm — sustaining all creation without strain.
Al-Matin in the Quran
The verse below contains this name. Each reference is checked against the Arabic text of the Quran before it is published, so Al-Matin really is in the verse it is cited from.
إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ هُوَ ٱلرَّزَّاقُ ذُو ٱلْقُوَّةِ ٱلْمَتِينُ
Indeed, it is Allah who is the [continual] Provider, the firm possessor of strength.
Surah Adh-Dhariyat 51:58Read the full surah →
How reliable is the list of ninety-nine?
That Allah has ninety-nine names is established in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, and both are agreed upon. The specific enumeration — this list of ninety-nine — comes from a narration in Jami' at-Tirmidhi that at-Tirmidhi himself called gharib, and which many hadith scholars grade weak; several held that a narrator compiled the names by searching the Quran and Sunnah. Classical scholars including al-Khattabi, Ibn Hazm, al-Qurtubi and al-Ghazali compiled lists of their own that differ from it. None of this touches the names themselves, every one of which is established elsewhere; it means the count of exactly these ninety-nine is a scholarly arrangement rather than a revealed roster, and Allah's names are not limited to them.
Questions about Al-Matin
Al-Matin (الْمَتِينُ) means "The Firm". Like every one of the ninety-nine names, it describes an attribute of Allah rather than serving as a label — the names are how the Quran teaches who Allah is.
Yes. This page cites 1 verse containing Al-Matin, each checked against the Arabic text before publishing.
Address Allah with "Ya" before the name — "Ya Matin" — and ask for what that attribute gives. The Quran instructs it directly: "To Allah belong the most beautiful names, so call upon Him by them" (7:180).
It is number 54 in the well-known list. The order comes from the narration of at-Tirmidhi and is a scholarly arrangement, so numbering can differ slightly between printed lists — the names themselves do not.