القَيُّوم
Al-Qayyoom
The Self Sustaining
What does Al-Qayyoom mean?
Al-Qayyoom (القَيُّوم) means “The Self Sustaining.” It is Name 63 in this collection of the 99 Names of Allah. The sections below explain the meaning, provide the available Quranic evidence and let you hear the Arabic pronunciation.
Meaning of Al-Qayyoom
The meaning of the name is The Self Sustaining.
How to pronounce Al-Qayyoom
The English transliteration is Al-Qayyoom. Use the audio control in the name card above to hear القَيُّوم pronounced in Arabic before repeating it.
About the name Al-Qayyoom
Al-Qayyum exists absolutely on His own, not through others, while every being exists through Him and because of Him. Nothing, no life whatever, can ever be sustained without Him. Al-Qayyum is the ever-Lasting, the Eternal Who never suffers extinction. He effects justice and equity, Who is self-Sustaining, Who never sleeps. Imam `Ali has said, "During the Battle of Badr, I participated in the battle for some time, then I came to the Messenger of Allah to see what he was doing, and I found him making sajdah while repeating, `O Hayy! O Qayyum!' So I went back to the battle-field, then I came back to him and I saw that he was still repeating the same words. I kept going there and coming back to him, and he was still doing exactly the same thing till Allah granted us victory." Abdullah ibn `Abbas is quoted as saying that the Greatest of all Attributes of Allah is al-Hayy al-Qayyum. Anyone who truly realizes that He, Glory to Him, is the Qa'im, Qayyim, Qiyam and Qayyum will never detach his heart from loving the Creator.
Al-Qayyoom in the Quran
الم Alif, Lam, Mim. Aal-i-Imraan : 1