What Endures

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)

Intention

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

Reflection

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.

On this verse

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.

Du'a

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

Hadith

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