According to Dr Sharib:
Ar-Raqib is the one Who protects and sees all. According to some
ar-Raqib is the One Who knows everything, protects everything and is not
unmindful for a single moment.
To realise this name we are advised that we should try to realise that Allah
sees us and is with us everywhere. We should try to keep a vigilant eye on
ourself.
Appropriate invocation leads to - protection of wealth and children, the
recovery of a lost thing, protection from miscarriage, safety for a child
during travel.
see 'The 99 Most Beautiful Names of Allah' by Dr Zahurul Hassan Sharib
Some other references:
O, mankind! reverence
Your Guardian-Lord,
Who created you
From a single Person,
Created of like nature,
His mate, and from them twain
Scattered like seeds
Countless men and women;-
Reverence Allah, through Whom
Ye demand your mutual rights,
And reverence the wombs
That bore you: for Allah
Ever Watches over you.
In Qur'an 5:117 Lord Jesus says: ..."I was a witness over them whilst I dwelt
amongst them: when Thou didst take me up, Thou wast the Watcher [Raqib]
over them, and Thou art a witness to all things."
Al-Ghazali tells us that one is called observant who cares for something to
the point of never forgetting it - one who observes it with a constant and
persistent gaze. He says that this attribute of watchfulness is only worthy in
man if directed to God and to his heart - which a man will do only when he
realises that God sees him in every situation.
(Al-Ghazali - The Ninety-nine Beautiful Names of God. Trans. Burrel/Daher: ITS: 1992.)
"Raqib - ever watchful, vigilant, overseer, supervisor - active
participle....from raqaba ..to watch to control."
A Word for Word Meaning of the Holy Qur'an - by Mhd. Mohar Ali: Jam'iyat 'Ihyaa' Minhaj al-Sunnah.
The passage from the holy Qur'an [4:1] makes a reference to the parents of
mankind, Adam and Eve, and also to the womb/kinship and thus the sense
of the passage may be suggesting a nurturing, protective kind of
overseeing. The use of the divine name appears to be given in this context.
The protection initially offered by the womb receives its natural extension in
familial, tribal, social, national or religious brotherhoods, and ultimately in
human brotherhood (all children of Adam). This implication is carried by the
English expression 'to watch over' someone i.e. to look out for their best
interests in a protective and attentive manner as parents do over a young
child, as a good society does over its individual members, as a
brotherhood does over its own. That however does not exclude the
disciplinary role also associated with watching out for a persons best
interests. The point is that it is Allah alone who is the truly attentive and ever
observant One Who watches over us, these parental and other structures
being a manifestation of this.
Thus to participate in this quality at a human level we also have a duty of
attentive care to the brotherhood of man, and specifically to those who are
oppressed, incapable, disabled or in some other way are requiring our
attention and needing to be watched over.
JMZ
Ar-Raqib is the one Who protects and sees all. According to some
ar-Raqib is the One Who knows everything, protects everything and is not
unmindful for a single moment.
To realise this name we are advised that we should try to realise that Allah
sees us and is with us everywhere. We should try to keep a vigilant eye on
ourself.
Appropriate invocation leads to - protection of wealth and children, the
recovery of a lost thing, protection from miscarriage, safety for a child
during travel.
see 'The 99 Most Beautiful Names of Allah' by Dr Zahurul Hassan Sharib
Some other references:
O, mankind! reverence
Your Guardian-Lord,
Who created you
From a single Person,
Created of like nature,
His mate, and from them twain
Scattered like seeds
Countless men and women;-
Reverence Allah, through Whom
Ye demand your mutual rights,
And reverence the wombs
That bore you: for Allah
Ever Watches over you.
In Qur'an 5:117 Lord Jesus says: ..."I was a witness over them whilst I dwelt
amongst them: when Thou didst take me up, Thou wast the Watcher [Raqib]
over them, and Thou art a witness to all things."
Al-Ghazali tells us that one is called observant who cares for something to
the point of never forgetting it - one who observes it with a constant and
persistent gaze. He says that this attribute of watchfulness is only worthy in
man if directed to God and to his heart - which a man will do only when he
realises that God sees him in every situation.
(Al-Ghazali - The Ninety-nine Beautiful Names of God. Trans. Burrel/Daher: ITS: 1992.)
"Raqib - ever watchful, vigilant, overseer, supervisor - active
participle....from raqaba ..to watch to control."
A Word for Word Meaning of the Holy Qur'an - by Mhd. Mohar Ali: Jam'iyat 'Ihyaa' Minhaj al-Sunnah.
The passage from the holy Qur'an [4:1] makes a reference to the parents of
mankind, Adam and Eve, and also to the womb/kinship and thus the sense
of the passage may be suggesting a nurturing, protective kind of
overseeing. The use of the divine name appears to be given in this context.
The protection initially offered by the womb receives its natural extension in
familial, tribal, social, national or religious brotherhoods, and ultimately in
human brotherhood (all children of Adam). This implication is carried by the
English expression 'to watch over' someone i.e. to look out for their best
interests in a protective and attentive manner as parents do over a young
child, as a good society does over its individual members, as a
brotherhood does over its own. That however does not exclude the
disciplinary role also associated with watching out for a persons best
interests. The point is that it is Allah alone who is the truly attentive and ever
observant One Who watches over us, these parental and other structures
being a manifestation of this.
Thus to participate in this quality at a human level we also have a duty of
attentive care to the brotherhood of man, and specifically to those who are
oppressed, incapable, disabled or in some other way are requiring our
attention and needing to be watched over.
JMZ
| Bismillah ir Rehman ir Rahim |
| Ar-Raqib (Ar-Raqeeb, Ar-Raqiib) Qur'an 5:117 & 4:1 |
| The Watchful The Vigilant, The One Who Watches All, The Envious. |
Yaaa -' ayyuhan-naasut-taquu Rabbakumullazi
khalaqa-kum-min-Nafsinw-waahida-tinw-wa khalaqa minhaa
zaw-jahaa wa bassa minhumaa ri-jaalan-kasiiranw-wa
nisaaa-'aa. Wattaqullaa-hallazii ta-saaa-'aluuna bihii wal-arhaam:
'innallaaha kaana 'alay-kum Raqiibaa.
(Qur'an 4:1 trans. Y. Ali)
khalaqa-kum-min-Nafsinw-waahida-tinw-wa khalaqa minhaa
zaw-jahaa wa bassa minhumaa ri-jaalan-kasiiranw-wa
nisaaa-'aa. Wattaqullaa-hallazii ta-saaa-'aluuna bihii wal-arhaam:
'innallaaha kaana 'alay-kum Raqiibaa.
(Qur'an 4:1 trans. Y. Ali)