Iqra

Learn the Qur’an, one ayah at a time.

98 of 99

الرَّشِيدُ

Ar Rasheed

The Most Righteous Guide

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

Reflection

Rushd is soundness of direction — the same root gives the word for a young person coming into their own judgement, and murshid, one who points the way.

The single ayah carrying this written form is shared with al-Ḥalīm, the thirty-second of these names: one sentence, spoken to Shuʿayb by people who had just refused everything he asked of them — you are the forbearing, the right-minded. Two of these ninety-nine came into the list out of that one line. Words can be true in a mouth that does not mean them.

Where you’ll meet it

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