Al-Qadir (القادر) — The All-Powerful, Absolute Capacity

Al-Qadir (القادر) is one of the Asma al-Husna (Most Beautiful Names) denoting God's absolute and unconditioned power — the qudrah from which every created capacity derives. Al-Ghazali in Al-Maqsad al-Asna explains that al-Qadir is the One whose will encounters no resistance: all things exist because al-Qadir wills them from non-existence into existence. This Name belongs to the jalali (majestic) cluster of divine attributes, expressing God's transcendent sovereignty. The salik who contemplates al-Qadir through dhikr realizes that every power exercised by any creature is borrowed — a tajalli (self-disclosure) of the one qudrah that has no source other than itself.

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