Al-Mujib
Al-Mujib is the Responsive — the One who answers the one who calls on Him, near and without intermediary.
Name 44 of 99
الْمُجِيبُ
Al-Mujib
The Responsive
- In Arabic
- الْمُجِيبُ
- Transliteration
- Al-Mujib
- Position in the list
- Name 44 of 99
Al-Mujib — The Responsive
What the name means
Ijabah is response. The name says answering is not occasional but characteristic: Salih ﷺ describes his Lord as qarib mujib — near and responsive — in a single phrase that removes both distance and delay.
The Quran states the mechanism elsewhere with no conditions attached: call upon Me, I will respond to you.
Living by this name
The Prophet ﷺ described three forms an answer takes: it is given, or it is stored for the hereafter, or an equivalent harm is turned away. On that account no du'a is refused, though not every du'a is granted as asked.
Its response is to keep asking, including for what seems small. See also As-Sami' and Al-Wasi'.
Al-Mujib 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-Mujib really is in the verse it is cited from.
۞ وَإِلَىٰ ثَمُودَ أَخَاهُمْ صَٰلِحًۭا ۚ قَالَ يَٰقَوْمِ ٱعْبُدُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ مَا لَكُم مِّنْ إِلَٰهٍ غَيْرُهُۥ ۖ هُوَ أَنشَأَكُم مِّنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ وَٱسْتَعْمَرَكُمْ فِيهَا فَٱسْتَغْفِرُوهُ ثُمَّ تُوبُوٓا۟ إِلَيْهِ ۚ إِنَّ رَبِّى قَرِيبٌۭ مُّجِيبٌۭ
And to Thamud [We sent] their brother Salih. He said, "O my people, worship Allah; you have no deity other than Him. He has produced you from the earth and settled you in it, so ask forgiveness of Him and then repent to Him. Indeed, my Lord is near and responsive."
Surah Hud 11:61Read 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-Mujib
Al-Mujib (الْمُجِيبُ) means "The Responsive". 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-Mujib, each checked against the Arabic text before publishing.
Address Allah with "Ya" before the name — "Ya Mujib" — 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 44 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.