Malik-ul-Mulk
Malik-ul-Mulk is the Master of the Kingdom — who owns all dominion and gives or withdraws it as He wills.
Name 84 of 99
مَالِكُ الْمُلْكِ
Malik-ul-Mulk
Master of the Kingdom
- In Arabic
- مَالِكُ الْمُلْكِ
- Transliteration
- Malik-ul-Mulk
- Position in the list
- Name 84 of 99
Malik-ul-Mulk — Master of the Kingdom
What the name means
The phrase joins owner to owned: not a king within a kingdom, but the owner of kingship itself. What rulers hold is on issue from Him.
The verse spells out the transfer in both directions: You give sovereignty to whom You will and take it from whom You will.
Malik-ul-Mulk 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 Malik-ul-Mulk really is in the verse it is cited from.
قُلِ ٱللَّهُمَّ مَٰلِكَ ٱلْمُلْكِ تُؤْتِى ٱلْمُلْكَ مَن تَشَآءُ وَتَنزِعُ ٱلْمُلْكَ مِمَّن تَشَآءُ وَتُعِزُّ مَن تَشَآءُ وَتُذِلُّ مَن تَشَآءُ ۖ بِيَدِكَ ٱلْخَيْرُ ۖ إِنَّكَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍۢ قَدِيرٌۭ
Say, "O Allah, Owner of Sovereignty, You give sovereignty to whom You will and You take sovereignty away from whom You will. You honor whom You will and You humble whom You will. In Your hand is [all] good. Indeed, You are over all things competent.
Surah Ali 'Imran 3:26Read 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 Malik-ul-Mulk
Malik-ul-Mulk (مَالِكُ الْمُلْكِ) means "Master of the Kingdom". 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 Malik-ul-Mulk, each checked against the Arabic text before publishing.
Address Allah with "Ya" before the name — "Ya Malik-ul-Mulk" — 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 84 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.