ما يبقى

الْبَاقِي

Al-Bāqī The Everlasting

كُلُّ مَنْ عَلَيْهَا فَانٍ * وَيَبْقَى وَجْهُ رَبِّكَ ذُو الْجَلَالِ وَالْإِكْرَامِ

Everyone that is thereon will pass away; There remaineth but the Countenance of thy Lord of Might and Glory

Surah Ar-Raḥmān (55:26-27)

النية

Today, I will invest time in knowledge that will benefit me beyond this life.

تأمّل

Al-Bāqī is The Everlasting, the One who remains after everything else has passed. In a month dedicated to seeking knowledge, this Name asks the deepest question: what kind of knowledge survives? Degrees expire. Skills become obsolete. Trends vanish. But the knowledge that connects you to Al-Bāqī (the knowledge of who He is, what He wants from you, and where you are going) that knowledge outlasts the universe itself.

في هذه الآية

Everything upon the earth (every library, every institution, every civilisation) will perish. What remains is only Him. The knowledge worth chasing is the knowledge that leads you to what remains.

دعاء

Calling upon the Ever-Living, because only what is alive and eternal can sustain what is mortal and passing.

حديث

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: 'The world is cursed and everything in it is cursed, except the remembrance of Allah and what is conducive to that, or a scholar, or a student of knowledge.'

Sunan at-Tirmidhī 2322, graded ḥasan by Al-Albānī