Ar-Razzaq
Ar-Razzaq is the Provider — the One who sustains every living thing, the obedient and the disobedient alike.
Name 17 of 99
الرَّزَّاقُ
Ar-Razzaq
The Provider
- In Arabic
- الرَّزَّاقُ
- Transliteration
- Ar-Razzaq
- Position in the list
- Name 17 of 99
Ar-Razzaq — The Provider
What the name means
Rizq is wider than food or money: it is anything that benefits, including knowledge, health, companionship and time. The intensive form says provision is continuous and universal, not occasional.
The single verse that carries the name states the reason: Allah is the Provider, the Firm in strength — provision follows from power, not from need on His part.
Living by this name
It removes the panic from earning. The Prophet ﷺ said that if people relied on Allah as He deserves, they would be provided as the birds are — leaving hungry, returning full. Reliance and effort are joined, not opposed.
It also forbids seeking provision by forbidden means: what is guaranteed does not need to be stolen. See also Al-Wahhab and Al-Muqit.
Ar-Razzaq 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 Ar-Razzaq 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 Ar-Razzaq
Ar-Razzaq (الرَّزَّاقُ) means "The Provider". 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 Ar-Razzaq, each checked against the Arabic text before publishing.
Address Allah with "Ya" before the name — "Ya Razzaq" — 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 17 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.