Al-Muta'ali
Al-Muta'ali is the Most Exalted — high above every deficiency and above whatever is said of Him without knowledge.
Name 78 of 99
الْمُتَعَالِي
Al-Muta'ali
The Most Exalted
- In Arabic
- الْمُتَعَالِي
- Transliteration
- Al-Muta'ali
- Position in the list
- Name 78 of 99
Al-Muta'ali — The Most Exalted
What the name means
The form intensifies Al-Ali: not only high, but rising above every attempt to bring Him down to a comparison.
The Quran places it after describing His knowledge of the hidden and the seen: the Great, the Most Exalted — greatness stated, then raised beyond reach.
Al-Muta'ali 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-Muta'ali really is in the verse it is cited from.
عَٰلِمُ ٱلْغَيْبِ وَٱلشَّهَٰدَةِ ٱلْكَبِيرُ ٱلْمُتَعَالِ
[He is] Knower of the unseen and the witnessed, the Grand, the Exalted.
Surah Ar-Rad 13:9Read 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-Muta'ali
Al-Muta'ali (الْمُتَعَالِي) means "The Most Exalted". 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-Muta'ali, each checked against the Arabic text before publishing.
Address Allah with "Ya" before the name — "Ya Muta'ali" — 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 78 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.