The Preserver, The Protector, The GuardianThe One whose power preserves the heavens and the earth. The One who is the guardian and preserver of all the worlds. The One who protects and preserves all of creation from perishing. The One who is vigilantly guarding every detail of all that has been created. The One who remembers and preserves all that has
ever been and all that is, while keeping under Divine protection the knowledge
of all that shall be. From the root h-f-z which has the following classical Arabic connotations:
This name is used in the Qur'ān. For example, see 11:57 Note that the final letter in Hafīz, the Arabic letter z sounds nothing at all like the English letter z, but rather in Arabic it is a open-jaw "th" sound, although in Farsi and Urdu it is pronounced as a "z". Related names:
(Also written as al-hafiz, al-hafeez, the Preserver, the Protector: ya hafiz, ya hafeez) |
