Al-Latif
اللَّطِيف
The Subtle, The Gentle
What it means
Al-Laṭīf combines subtle knowledge with gentle mercy: He arranges affairs in ways too fine for a creature to trace, and delivers goodness through paths His servant would never have imagined.
Qur'anic evidence
This name appears explicitly in the following ayahs:
Sources for this entry
The Arabic name and its enumeration follow the traditional list in Sunan al-Tirmidhī (§3507). The concise explanation reflects the consensus classical understanding taught in Al-Ghazālī's Al-Maqṣad al-Asnā and Ibn Kathīr's tafsīr. Qur'anic references are locations where the name appears in the Mushaf.
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