Al-Mudhill
Al-Mudhill is the Humbler — the One who brings low whom He wills, always with justice and never with wrong.
Name 25 of 99
الْمُذِلُّ
Al-Mudhill
The Humbler
- In Arabic
- الْمُذِلُّ
- Transliteration
- Al-Mudhill
- Position in the list
- Name 25 of 99
Al-Mudhill — The Humbler
What the name means
Dhull is lowliness. As a divine act it is the withdrawal of a support that was never owed, and the Quran states it in the same breath as its opposite: You honour whom You will and You abase whom You will — in Your hand is all good.
That last clause is deliberate: even the abasing is placed inside the good, because it is corrective rather than cruel.
Living by this name
It warns against reading someone's fall as proof of Allah's hatred, or one's own standing as proof of His love. Both are tests, and the Quran says so explicitly of wealth and of hardship.
Its response is fear of arrogance rather than fear of people. See also Al-Mu'izz and Al-Khafid.
Where Al-Mudhill comes from
Al-Mudhill does not appear in the Quran as a standalone name. It reaches the famous list of ninety-nine through the narration of at-Tirmidhi, and its meaning is established by the Quran in other words — through verbs and related forms rather than the name itself. Scholars accepted such names on that basis; this page marks the distinction rather than hiding it.
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-Mudhill
Al-Mudhill (الْمُذِلُّ) means "The Humbler". 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.
Not as a standalone name. Al-Mudhill reaches the list of ninety-nine through at-Tirmidhi's narration, while its meaning is established in the Quran through verbs and related forms. This page says so plainly rather than attaching a verse that does not contain it.
Address Allah with "Ya" before the name — "Ya Mudhill" — 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 25 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.