Iqra

Learn the Qur’an, one ayah at a time.

46 of 99

الْحَكِيمُ

Al Hakeem

The Perfectly Wise

Scroll on for a reflection, and where you’ll meet it

Reflection

The same root as al-Ḥakam, and a ḥakīm is not the one who knows most but the one who puts things where they belong — the root’s sense of holding firm becomes, in this shape, an arrangement.

It is the most paired name in the Book: of its 42 ayat al-ʿAzīz stands before it in 29 and al-ʿAlīm in four, and it ends the ayah in 37 of the 42. Seven of them are the line that opens a surah. Wisdom in this root is an order rather than a stock of facts, which is a kinder thing to be living inside of.

Where you’ll meet it

A few of the ayat where this name’s written form appears.