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الباقي

The Everlasting

Al-Bāqī

The conservator’s bench — everything, slowly going.

Meaning

From b-q-y, which Ibn Fāris gives as one origin, continuance, and al-Khalīl, as he quotes him, as the opposite of passing away. The Qurʼan says the root of Allah Himself once, in the magicians’ answer to Pharaoh: wa-llāhu khayrun wa-abqā, Allah is better and more lasting (20:73). Of His Face it uses the verb: everyone upon it is perishing, and there remains the Face of your Lord (55:26–27). At 28:88 everything is perishing except His Face; Ibn Kathīr reads the Face as Himself, gives Mujāhid and ath-Thawrī for except what was sought for His Face, and says the two do not conflict. What is with Allah remains (16:96): His reward, say aṭ-Ṭabarī and Ibn Kathīr. The root also names the deeds that remain, al-bāqiyāt aṣ-ṣāliḥāt. The definite al-bāqī is not in the Qurʼan.

Root b-q-y — continuance (ad-dawām)

Counted on the Tanzil text with the pause marks removed, every return read in its verse: bāʼ then qāf, at most two letters between, since bāqin is written without its yāʼ, return 166 words, 145 of them other roots (s-b-q, b-r-q, b-q-r, ṭ-b-q, w-b-q, ʼ-b-q and others) or bi- on another word, bi-qīʻah at 24:39 among them. B-q-y is twenty-one words in twenty-one verses. Of Allah Himself: abqā at 20:73, the answer to Pharaoh’s ayyunā ashaddu ʻadhāban wa-abqā (20:71). Of His Face: yabqā at 55:27. Of what is with Allah or from Him: bāqin at 16:96, the root’s only masculine singular active participle, and khayrun wa-abqā at 20:131, 28:60 and 42:36; of the Hereafter at 87:17; of its punishment at 20:127. Al-bāqiyāt aṣ-ṣāliḥāt at 18:46 and 19:76. Of people remaining, or none left: 26:120, 37:77, 69:8, and abqā as a verb at 53:51; lā tubqī at 74:28; what remains of a thing at 2:248, 2:278, 11:86, 11:116 and 43:28. The definite al-bāqī is not in the Qurʼan. Ibn Fāris (Maqāyīs al-Lughah, vol. 1, pp. 276–277): b-q-y is one origin, ad-dawām; al-Khalīl: baqāʼ is ḍidd al-fanāʼ; and baqaytu, I waited, returns to it, since waiting is part of steadfastness and continuance. At 20:73 aṭ-Ṭabarī: better than you, Pharaoh, in reward for whoever obeys Him, and more lasting in punishment for whoever disobeys; as-Saʻdī reads it as the answer to 20:71. At 28:88 Ibn Kathīr calls Allah ad-dāʼim al-bāqī and gives two readings that do not conflict; aṭ-Ṭabarī records both. In the six editions al-bāqī said of Allah stands only in the lists at at-Tirmidhī 3507, ḍaʻīf (Aḥmad Shākir; al-Albānī; Darussalam), gharīb by at-Tirmidhī, and Ibn Mājah 3861, isnād ḍaʻīf with the list (Shuʻayb al-Arnaʼūṭ), ḍaʻīf (Darussalam), ṣaḥīḥ without it (al-Albānī); no supplication calls on Him by it. Ḥadīth: at-Tirmidhī 2470, all of it remains except its shoulder, which al-Mubārakfūrī reads with 16:96; Muslim 2960, three follow the dead man; Muslim 2958a, my wealth, my wealth.

Story

Suad’s title was Conservator of Antiquities, and she used to say the honest version was Manager of Decline.

Nothing in her care was getting better. The manuscripts were oxidizing. The bronzes had a disease. The great carpet was losing four fibers a year to light no matter how carefully the light was rationed. She could slow all of it, sometimes to a crawl, and she was extremely good at that. She could not stop any of it. Every object in those rooms was on its way to dust, and her entire profession consisted of lengthening the journey.

She had lost exactly one thing outright in twenty-two years. It was a painted wooden panel that arrived already too far gone — a figure, probably a saint or a donor, twelfth century, the gesso crumbling from the edges inward since before anyone living had known the object existed. She kept it stabilized for nine months through a sequence of interventions she recorded in her notes without sentiment, because there was nothing sentimental about it. It was an engineering problem. She solved it as well as it could be solved.

On a Thursday afternoon the solution stopped working all at once. The paint film released from the substrate as though it had been waiting for a reason. She noted the time, photographed the result from three angles, made her final entry in the object file, and went out and sat in the car park for twenty minutes.

None of this depressed her. She said it had cured her of a particular illusion — the one where you divide the world into the permanent things and the passing things. There is no such division. There is only fast and slow. Her own body was on the same schedule as the carpet, and the building was on the same schedule as her body, and the hill the building stood on was too.

A donor asked her once, at an event, to say a few words about preserving the collection for future generations. She said she would rather not put it that way. Pressed, she explained that she was not preserving anything for future generations. She was carrying a set of objects slightly further along than they would otherwise have got, and the next conservator would carry them further, and there would come a point at which there was no further to carry them. The donor decided she was being modest. She was being accurate, and she had the figures in a drawer.

Above the bench she kept a photograph of the panel. Not the one from the object file. One she had taken herself in the first week, while it was still whole, before she had understood what she was looking at.

Poem

The canyon is not one patient thing.
It is a stitched thing.
Some of those gorges were cut fifty to seventy million years ago
by rivers that no longer exist,
running north,
the other way from the river there now.

Then they were abandoned.
Gravel filled them over tens of millions of years —
canyons with no river in them,
holes waiting without knowing they were waiting.
Five or six million years ago
snowmelt off the Rockies came looking for the sea,
found the old cuts lying there,
took them, and joined them.

That splice is what people stand at the rim of
and call permanent.
Over a mile down at the deepest,
four hundred and forty-five kilometers long,
and every meter of it salvage —
the most enduring-looking object on that continent,
assembled out of things that had already failed.

And the stitched thing is running out as well.
The river will go.
The rim will come down to meet the floor.
Six million years, or six hundred million:
a number is a number,
and every number ends.

There is a lasting that is not a long time.
The canyon sits inside a clock.
Its age is a measurement,
and whatever can be measured against something
can, in principle, be spent.

Al-Bāqī is not the oldest thing on the oldest clock.
He is the reason there is a clock.
He was before the first grain of sediment moved
and He is after the last canyon lies level,
and neither of those is a date.
Nothing is before Him,
and nothing
is after
Him.

Reflection

The Remaining

This Name comes out of a sentence built to take everything from you before it gives you anything. Everyone upon it is perishing — the entire standing population of the earth disposed of in four Arabic words. Ibn Kathīr hears it as what is coming: all of them will go, and die. And then, immediately: And there remains the Face of your Lord, Possessor of Majesty and Generosity (55:27). Yabqā, remains. Ash-Shaʻbī told whoever recites the first verse not to stop until he has recited the second. The verb that gives this Name is the verb left over once the sentence has finished removing everything else.

It is worth staying with what that removes, because it removes more than we normally let it. Not only the body. The house you were born in. The language you speak, which is younger than most mountains and will be dead before most of them. The nation. The archive. The photograph, which is a chemical arrangement running on its own quiet schedule. The conservator in the story has been cured of the division we all keep making, between the permanent things and the passing things: there is no such division, only fast and slow. Everything is perishing except His Face (28:88). Ibn Kathīr gives two readings of except His Face — except Him, and except what was done seeking His Face — and says they do not conflict: every self passes away but His, and every deed passes but the one meant for Him. Neither reading softens the half of the verse that says everything.

The instinctive answer to this is legacy. If I cannot last, my effects can; I will plant a tree whose shade I will never sit in, and something of me will continue. It is a decent instinct and it is answering the wrong question, because the tree is perishing too, at its own rate, exactly as I am. So is the institution. So is the book. If a good deed is said to endure because its consequences go on rippling outward through the world, then it fails exactly where everything else fails. It fails later. Later is not a different kind of thing.

And yet the Qurʼan does use this root of our deeds — and it is precise about where they last. Wealth and children adorn the life of this world, and then, al-bāqiyāt aṣ-ṣāliḥāt: And the enduring good deeds are better with your Lord for reward, and better for hope (18:46). Not better in the world. ʻinda rabbik — with your Lord. The deeds that remain do not remain here. They remain because they have been put beyond the perishing and deposited with Allah, who holds what is given to Him after everything else has been taken back. Permanence is not a property of the deed. It is an address.

There is a ḥadīth that settles this in a single exchange. A sheep had been slaughtered, and al-Mubārakfūrī reads it as given away in charity, all but the shoulder. The Prophet ﷺ asked: What remains of it? ʻĀʼishah said: Nothing remains of it except its shoulder. He said: All of it remains, except its shoulder (at-Tirmidhī 2470). The verb is the same one. What was still in the house was the part that was leaving. What had gone out the door was the part that had been put somewhere safe. This is not a gentle metaphor about generosity feeling good. It is a claim about where things actually are.

He said it in other forms. Three follow the dead man; two return and one remains. His family, his wealth and his deeds follow him — then his family and his wealth return, and his deeds remain (Muslim 2960). The son of Adam says: my wealth, my wealth … And have you, son of Adam, anything of your wealth except what you ate and finished, or wore and wore out, or gave in charity and thereby sent on? (Muslim 2958a). In another report, whatever is besides those three is going, and he is leaving it to people (Muslim 2959a). The rest was never his. He was holding it for whoever comes next, and so are they.

So the honest form of the instinct is not build something that outlasts you. Nothing does. It is send it ahead, because there is exactly one place that is not perishing and you have been given permission to put things there. And beneath even that, the reason a heart can rest in this Name is not that it has found a way to preserve itself. It is that the thing it loves most is the one thing not being taken. Everything you have will be removed from you, in an order you did not choose, at a speed you cannot slow. He will not be. That is the whole of the comfort. It is enough, and there is no other.

You cannot keep anything — but you are allowed to send it ahead; and when the last of it has gone from your hands, Al-Bāqī will be exactly where He was before you had hands.

Qurʼan

كُلُّ مَنْ عَلَيْهَا فَانٍ ۝ وَيَبْقَىٰ وَجْهُ رَبِّكَ ذُو الْجَلَالِ وَالْإِكْرَامِ

Everyone upon it is perishing. And there remains the Face of your Lord, Possessor of Majesty and Generosity.

55:26–27 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

Names 41 and 85 carry 55:27, Name 85 carries 55:26 on its own, and Name 74 carries 55:26–27 whole in the same English. Aṭ-Ṭabarī: everyone on the face of the earth, of jinn and humans, perishes, and the Face of your Lord remains; dhū l-jalāl describes the Face, which is why it is dhū, and ʻAbdullāh’s reading has dhī, describing the Lord. Ibn Kathīr reads fānin of what is coming: all of them will go and die, and no one remains but His noble Face, for the Lord does not die. He gives ash-Shaʻbī: when you recite the first verse, do not stop until you recite the second. Al-Qurṭubī weighs what the Face means here: it is His existence and His essence, which he gives as the choice of the verifiers among his own people, Ibn Fūrak and Abū l-Maʻālī, and he quotes Abū l-Maʻālī grounding it on this very verse, since what is described as remaining when the creation is exposed to perishing is the existence of the Maker; he reports from al-Qushayrī that a group held it an attribute over and above the essence, not asked after as to how, by which the turning toward whomever the Lord would honour is brought about, and that the sound thing is to say it is His existence and His essence. He cites Ibn ʻAbbās to the same effect. Al-Baghawī glosses the two words that follow as majesty and greatness and as the honouring of those He draws near with His kindness. As-Saʻdī: everything on the earth, men, jinn and beasts, passes away, and the Living who does not die remains, great and glorious, whose honouring is the breadth of His bounty to His friends. Ibn ʻĀshūr takes the Face of your Lord as His essence, on the usage of the Arabs, with az-Zamakhsharī, which is why it is described as the possessor of majesty and honour, and reads the verse as the warning set after the favours counted before it, that the ships and the rest do not stand between people and the passing decreed for them, so that they may not forget to make ready for the life that remains.

كُلُّ شَيْءٍ هَالِكٌ إِلَّا وَجْهَهُ

Everything is perishing except His Face.

28:88 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

The āyah has no word of this root. Ibn Kathīr: it tells that He is ad-dāʼim al-bāqī, the Lasting, the Remaining, the Living, the Self-Subsisting, as at 55:26–27, and the Face is said for Himself: except Him. He gives Mujāhid and ath-Thawrī for except what was sought for His Face, and says this does not conflict with the first: every deed is void except what was meant for Allah, and every self passes away except His, for He is the First and the Last. Aṭ-Ṭabarī records both readings without choosing between them. Al-Qurṭubī and al-Baghawī record more: in al-Qurṭubī, His religion, from aṣ-Ṣādiq, and His standing, from Abū ʻUbaydah; in al-Baghawī, except His dominion. As-Saʻdī: Allah is the One who remains, and everything besides Him perishes. At this verse aṭ-Ṭabarī, al-Qurṭubī and al-Baghawī raise no word of the root in their comment on it at all, and only Ibn ʻĀshūr argues the Name, taking the Face as the essence, so that every existent perishes but Allah, and arguing from the clause that there is no god but He: the kind of godhood being denied to any other, none other brought Him into being, so beginningless eternity is established for Him and He remains, no nonexistence befalling Him, since the beginningless cannot cease to be. That is what the perishing of everything but His Face means, he says, and with it the answer to those who allowed Him a partner.

مَا عِندَكُمْ يَنفَدُ وَمَا عِندَ اللَّهِ بَاقٍ

What is with you runs out, and what is with Allah remains.

16:96 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

After 16:95, do not sell the covenant of Allah for a small price. Aṭ-Ṭabarī: what you own in this world, however much, runs out and passes, and the good that is with Allah for whoever keeps His covenant remains and does not pass. Ibn Kathīr: His reward for you in Paradise remains, without end. As-Saʻdī: it remains by His remaining. Bāqin is the root’s only masculine singular active participle in the Qurʼan, said of what is with Allah. Al-Mubārakfūrī reads at-Tirmidhī 2470, below among the ḥadīth, as pointing to this verse. Ibn ʻĀshūr marks off the sense of what is with Allah in the verse before, what is better for you: there it is what is laid up for them, as a man says you have such and such with me, not the withness of Allah’s own ownership, among whose instances he lists this very clause; and he reads this verse as the ground of that promise, since the stores of people go to their end by being given out and the stores of Allah remain. Al-Qurṭubī: the price is little however much it is, because it passes away, and that is the difference between the two states, the one running out and shifting and the other fixed for whoever keeps the covenant. Al-Baghawī: what you have is this world and what is in it, and it perishes.

وَاللَّهُ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَىٰ

And Allah is better and more lasting.

20:73 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

The magicians who believed, answering Pharaoh, who had sworn at 20:71 that they would know which was more severe in punishment and more lasting. The one place in the Qurʼan where the root is said of Allah Himself. None of the six reads it bare: each says what of His is the more lasting, His reward, His punishment or both. Aṭ-Ṭabarī: Allah is better than you, Pharaoh, in reward for whoever obeys Him, and more lasting in punishment for whoever disobeys Him, with Ibn Isḥāq, and Muḥammad ibn Kaʻb and Muḥammad ibn Qays. Ibn Kathīr gives more lasting in reward from Ibn Isḥāq, and more lasting in punishment from Muḥammad ibn Kaʻb al-Quraẓī, and adds that the like of the second is related from Ibn Isḥāq as well, which is what aṭ-Ṭabarī and al-Baghawī have from him. As-Saʻdī: better than the wage, the rank and the standing you promised us, and more lasting in reward and beneficence, not as Pharaoh says; the words before it he calls, as it were, their answer to Pharaoh’s. Al-Baghawī gives the two readings aṭ-Ṭabarī reports to their holders by name: Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, better than you in reward and more lasting in punishment; and Muḥammad ibn Kaʻb, better than you in reward if He is obeyed and more lasting than you in punishment if He is disobeyed, which he too marks as the answer to what Pharaoh had sworn. Al-Qurṭubī gathers three readings: Ibn ʻAbbās’s, that it is His reward that is better and more lasting, a governed noun being left out; that Allah is better for us than you and more lasting in punishment than your punishment of us; and that He is better for us if we obey Him and more lasting in punishment than you if we disobey Him. He also carries al-Ḥasan, that they had been taught the craft as children and practised it afterwards by their own choice. Ibn ʻĀshūr reads the clause as a tailpiece to their speech: Allah is better for us, in that we prefer Him to you, and His good pleasure more lasting, His recompense in good and in evil outlasting Pharaoh’s, a full answer to his threat.

وَالْبَاقِيَاتُ الصَّالِحَاتُ خَيْرٌ عِنْدَ رَبِّكَ ثَوَابًا وَخَيْرٌ أَمَلًا

And the enduring good deeds are better with your Lord for reward, and better for hope.

18:46 (Qurʼan, opens quran.com)

After wealth and children, the adornment of the life of this world. Aṭ-Ṭabarī: the deeds that remain for their doer in the Hereafter; he prefers that they are all good deeds, as ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭalḥah reports from Ibn ʻAbbās, and says the report he gives from Abū Hurayrah, that subḥāna llāh, al-ḥamdu lillāh, lā ilāha illā llāh and allāhu akbar are of the enduring good deeds, does not make them all of them. Ibn Kathīr gives Ibn ʻAbbās: they remain for their people in Paradise as long as the heavens and the earth remain. 19:76 repeats the phrase. Al-Qurṭubī sets out the disagreement with its holders: the five prayers, from Ibn ʻAbbās, Ibn Jubayr, and Abū Maysarah and ʻAmr ibn Shuraḥbīl, two names of one man; every righteous deed of word or act that remains for the Hereafter, also from Ibn ʻAbbās and from Ibn Zayd, which aṭ-Ṭabarī preferred and which al-Qurṭubī calls the sound one, since whatever has its reward remaining may be called by the name; the well-known words of remembrance, which he gives to the body of the scholars, with Mālik reporting them in his Muwaṭṭaʼ from Saʻīd ibn al-Musayyab; the intentions and resolves, from al-Ḥasan, because deeds are accepted and raised by them; and daughters, from ʻUbayd ibn ʻUmayr, which al-Qurṭubī supports from the wealth and sons the verse opens on and from a report of ʻĀʼishah. Al-Baghawī gives the first three of those. As-Saʻdī takes them to be every act of obedience, obligatory and recommended, owed to Allah or to His servants, whose reward remains and is multiplied without end, and divides what the world holds into an adornment enjoyed a little and gone and what remains to its owner always. Ibn ʻĀshūr reads the two words as describing an unsaid noun, the deeds, and asks why the enduring is put before the righteous when the plain order would be the reverse, the second being the better known description and the remaining following upon the soundness; his answer is that putting the enduring first says of what was named before it, the wealth and the sons, that it was set apart because it does not remain, and spares the words that would say so; the passing of those things is then signified twice, by the likeness of the dry stalks in the verse before and by this word, the second confirming the first, so that the speech is at once emphatic and brief. He notes the verse of Maryam at 19:76 in the same terms.

Dua

أَنتَ الْآخِرُ فَلَيْسَ بَعْدَكَ شَيْءٌ

You are the Last, so there is nothing after You.

Muslim 2713a · ṣaḥīḥ

No supplication in the six ḥadīth editions calls on Allah as al-Bāqī; the Name stands only in the lists at at-Tirmidhī 3507 and Ibn Mājah 3861. This clause is from the supplication for lying down to sleep, from Abū Hurayrah by way of Suhayl and his father Abū Ṣāliḥ: the Prophet’s ﷺ own saying that nothing is after Him. Names 73 to 76 carry the four clauses it stands among, and Name 89 the supplication’s close. Ibn Kathīr, at 28:88, gives every self passing away except His, for He is the First and the Last, before everything and after everything.

Hadith

مَا بَقِيَ مِنْهَا قَالَتْ مَا بَقِيَ مِنْهَا إِلَّا كَتِفُهَا قَالَ بَقِيَ كُلُّهَا غَيْرَ كَتِفِهَا

What remains of it? She said: Nothing remains of it except its shoulder. He said: All of it remains, except its shoulder.

at-Tirmidhī 2470 · ṣaḥīḥ (at-Tirmidhī’s own verdict; Aḥmad Shākir; al-Albānī; Bashshār ʻAwwād Maʻrūf); isnād ḥasan (Darussalam)

From ʻĀʼishah: they slaughtered a sheep, and the Prophet ﷺ asked what remained of it. At-Tirmidhī names her narrator, Abū Maysarah, as ʻAmr ibn Shuraḥbīl al-Hamdānī. Al-Mubārakfūrī, in Tuḥfat al-Aḥwadhī: they were the household, which is the apparent sense; the shoulder is what was not given in charity, and all of it remains means that what was given in charity remains and what stayed with you does not, pointing to 16:96, what is with you runs out, and what is with Allah remains. Al-Qārī, in Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ, gives the same reading in nearly the same words, naming Ibn al-Malak for the Companions and calling the household the more apparent.

يَتْبَعُ الْمَيِّتَ ثَلَاثَةٌ فَيَرْجِعُ اثْنَانِ وَيَبْقَى وَاحِدٌ يَتْبَعُهُ أَهْلُهُ وَمَالُهُ وَعَمَلُهُ فَيَرْجِعُ أَهْلُهُ وَمَالُهُ وَيَبْقَى عَمَلُهُ

Three follow the dead man; two return and one remains. His family, his wealth and his deeds follow him — then his family and his wealth return, and his deeds remain.

Muslim 2960 · ṣaḥīḥ

From Anas ibn Mālik, by the route of Sufyān ibn ʻUyaynah from ʻAbdullāh ibn Abī Bakr. Al-Bukhārī 6514, from Sufyān by the same route, reads one remains with him, wa-yabqā maʻahu wāḥid. At-Tirmidhī 2379, by the same route, has thalāth for thalāthah: ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ (at-Tirmidhī’s own verdict); ṣaḥīḥ (Aḥmad Shākir; al-Albānī); ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ (Bashshār ʻAwwād Maʻrūf); ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī (Darussalam). An-Nasāʼī 1937 names the three first and then the two that return: ṣaḥīḥ (Abū Ghuddah; al-Albānī); ṣaḥīḥ, muttafaq ʻalayh (Darussalam).

يَقُولُ ابْنُ آدَمَ مَالِي مَالِي … وَهَلْ لَكَ يَا ابْنَ آدَمَ مِنْ مَالِكَ إِلَّا مَا أَكَلْتَ فَأَفْنَيْتَ أَوْ لَبِسْتَ فَأَبْلَيْتَ أَوْ تَصَدَّقْتَ فَأَمْضَيْتَ

The son of Adam says: my wealth, my wealth … And have you, son of Adam, anything of your wealth except what you ate and finished, or wore and wore out, or gave in charity and thereby sent on?

Muslim 2958a · ṣaḥīḥ

From Muṭarrif, from his father: he came to the Prophet ﷺ while he was reciting alhākumu t-takāthur. The ellipsis stands for the narrator’s qāla between the two halves of the Prophet’s ﷺ words; Muslim 2958b gives the same by another route and says only that it is like it. Muslim 2959a, from Abū Hurayrah: the servant has of his wealth only three things, what he ate and consumed, or wore and wore out, or gave and so stored up, and whatever is besides that is going, and he is leaving it to people.

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CARRIED ON THIS PAGE: five verses. Kept, with the Arabic unchanged: 55:26–27, now in Name 85’s English and linked with it as another portion, and exactly with Name 74; 28:88, exactly with Name 74; and 16:96. Appended and new to the book: 20:73 from wa-llāhu, the one verse where the root is said of Allah Himself; and 18:46 from wa-l-bāqiyātu ṣ-ṣāliḥātu, moved from the Duʻāʼ page. Duʻāʼ: Muslim 2713a, the clause anta l-ākhiru fa-laysa baʻdaka shayʼ, linked as another portion with Names 73, 74, 75, 76 and 89. Ḥadīth: at-Tirmidhī 2470; Muslim 2960, now alone in its source; and Muslim 2958a.

NAMED HERE BUT NOT CARRIED ON THIS PAGE: 24:39, carried at Name 64; 20:71, 20:131, 28:60, 42:36, 87:17, 20:127, 19:76, 26:120, 37:77, 69:8, 53:51, 74:28, 2:248, 2:278, 11:86, 11:116, 43:28 and 16:95, all carried at NO Name.

CORRECTED ON THE RECORD, THE COUNT: the entry had none, and said the verb yabqā is the whole of the Name’s direct grounding. B-q-y counted on the pointed Tanzil text with the pause marks removed (count_bqy.py, every word given one sense and asserted in build_N96.py). Bāʼ then qāf, at most two letters between, since the indefinite bāqin is written without its yāʼ, return 166 words; 145 are other roots, set aside by named pattern: s-b-q 37, b-r-q with istabraq 10, b-q-r 9, ṭ-b-q 4, w-b-q 2, b-q-l, b-q-ʻ, ʼ-b-q (abaqa, 37:140), b-s-q and ʻabqarī one each, bi- on a word of qāf 69, bi-qīʻah at 24:39 among them, and bi- on another word 9. A wider window adds five words, none of this root. B-q-y is twenty-one words in twenty-one verses: of Allah Himself, abqā at 20:73; of His Face, yabqā at 55:27; of what is with Allah or from Him, bāqin at 16:96 and abqā at 20:131, 28:60 and 42:36; of the Hereafter, 87:17; of punishment, 20:71 in Pharaoh’s claim and 20:127; the deeds that remain, 18:46 and 19:76; people who remain or none left, 26:120, 37:77, 69:8 and the verb abqā at 53:51; lā tubqī, 74:28; remnants and what remains of a thing, 2:248, 2:278, 11:86, 11:116 and 43:28. Abqā is eight words, seven of them the elative, and khayrun wa-abqā is five of those. Bāqin is the only masculine singular active participle, as the ref said. The definite al-bāqī is in no āyah.

CORRECTED ON THE RECORD, THE PAGE: FOUND FALSE AND CORRECTED — the desc, the 55:26–27 note and the Study Note gave the verb as the whole of the Name’s grounding in the Qurʼan, and the meditation said most Names arrive as nouns and this one as a verb; the root is said of Allah Himself at 20:73, and the claim about the other Names is struck. The ref and the meditation said the first verse is is perishing and not will perish, in the present; Ibn Kathīr reads it of what is coming, and the claim is struck. The page printed 55:26 as Everyone upon the earth will perish, where Name 85 prints Everyone upon it is perishing; it now has Name 85’s English. The 55:26–27 note said the verse grounds Names 41 and 85; Name 41 carries 55:27 only. The Duʻāʼ page carried 18:46, which is not a supplication; it is now on the Qurʼan page, and the Duʻāʼ page carries Muslim 2713a. The source al-Bukhārī 6514; Muslim 2960 paired two records where al-Bukhārī 6514 reads wa-yabqā maʻahu wāḥid; the source is now Muslim 2960, with no narrator in it, and al-Bukhārī 6514 is in the note with its reading. The meditation had two turning back at the grave and one going in with him, where the record has two return and one remains, and it gave the three things of the son of Adam to the report of Muslim 2958a, where the three and the rest left to people are Muslim 2959a’s; both are now given as the records have them. Its quotations of 55:27, 28:88, 18:46 and at-Tirmidhī 2470 are now the book’s English. The poem said some gorges were cut seventy million years ago by rivers running toward a sea that is also gone, that they sat open and empty for tens of millions of years, and that the snowmelt came off a young range; Karlstrom and others (Nature Geoscience 7, 2014) date the old Hurricane segment to 70–50 million years, carved by a north-flowing river, their supplement has the old channels clogged and the Hualapai Plateau channels filling with sediment from about 55 to about 18 million years ago, and the Colorado River joins Rocky Mountain drainage to the Gulf of California; the lines now say fifty to seventy million, running north, gravel filled them, and off the Rockies. The poem’s four hundred and forty-six kilometers now reads four hundred and forty-five. REMOVED AS UNVERIFIED — the desc’s He is not on the scale at all, and its reading of illā wajhah as the attribute affirmed without asking how or likening, given to the commentators and found in no source read; the 28:88 note’s not most things but everything, without remainder, now Ibn Kathīr’s every self passes away except His; the meditation’s the commentators, the disagreement is real, and a ḥadīth that never needed a commentary after it; the poem’s He does not endure through time and was never inside it, now nothing before Him and nothing after Him, as Muslim 2713a says; the 16:96 note’s account of how the verse came onto the page; the ḥadīth notes’ pointers to the meditation, their account of an earlier form of the page, the remark on vowel marks, the name of Muṭarrif’s father, which the record does not give, and the dashes said to be Muslim’s. The note on at-Tirmidhī 2470 said ʻĀʼishah gave most of the sheep away in charity; the record says only that they slaughtered a sheep, and the charity reading is now given as al-Mubārakfūrī’s. The ref’s Jāmiʻ at-Tirmidhī 2470 now reads at-Tirmidhī 2470, and its quotation marks are gone. SOURCED — the gloss and the root field are Ibn Fāris’s; the notes on 55:26–27, 28:88, 16:96, 20:73 and 18:46 are aṭ-Ṭabarī’s, Ibn Kathīr’s and as-Saʻdī’s; the charity reading of at-Tirmidhī 2470 and its tie to 16:96 are al-Mubārakfūrī’s.

THE SIX EDITIONS: al-bāqī as a word in eight records, all read. Of Allah only in the lists: at-Tirmidhī 3507, an-nūru l-hādī l-badīʻu l-bāqī: ḍaʻīf (Aḥmad Shākir; al-Albānī; Darussalam), gharīb by at-Tirmidhī; and Ibn Mājah 3861, aḍ-ḍārru n-nāfiʻu l-bāqī: isnād ḍaʻīf with the list (Shuʻayb al-Arnaʼūṭ), ḍaʻīf (Darussalam), ṣaḥīḥ without it (al-Albānī). The other six are the rest of a thing: al-Bukhārī 6976, Muslim 2473a, Abū Dāwūd 1429 and 3012, an-Nasāʼī 3176 and 5403. Bāqin is in no record. Abqā llāhu ʻalayka mā yukhzīk, ʻUmar to Abū Sufyān, at al-Bukhārī 4043 and 4044, has Allah as the subject of the verb and is not the Name. Allāhumma within eight words of the root: Muslim 974a and an-Nasāʼī 2039, baqīʻ, another root; Saʻd ibn Muʻādh’s own supplication, fa-abqinī, at Muslim 1769c and al-Bukhārī 4122; and at-Tirmidhī 3570, mā abqaytanī: mawḍūʻ (Aḥmad Shākir; al-Albānī), ḥasan (Bashshār ʻAwwād Maʻrūf), ḍaʻīf (Darussalam). No supplication calls on Allah as al-Bāqī. Three follow the dead man in four records: Muslim 2960; al-Bukhārī 6514, wa-yabqā maʻahu wāḥid; at-Tirmidhī 2379, thalāth: ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ by at-Tirmidhī, ṣaḥīḥ (Aḥmad Shākir; al-Albānī), ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ (Bashshār ʻAwwād Maʻrūf), ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī (Darussalam); an-Nasāʼī 1937, the three named first: ṣaḥīḥ (Abū Ghuddah; al-Albānī), ṣaḥīḥ, muttafaq ʻalayh (Darussalam). At-Tirmidhī 2470: ṣaḥīḥ by at-Tirmidhī; ṣaḥīḥ (Aḥmad Shākir; al-Albānī; Bashshār ʻAwwād Maʻrūf); isnād ḥasan (Darussalam). Muslim 2958a and 2958b, which says only like it, 2959a and 2959b, which says only like it, and Muslim 2713a, read. The printed portions of at-Tirmidhī 2470, Muslim 2960 and Muslim 2713a are contained letter for letter; Muslim 2958a in two runs, the ellipsis standing for one qāla.

READ: Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-Lughah, the entry b-q-y whole, vol. 1, pp. 276–277, on Shamela. Aṭ-Ṭabarī at 55:26–27, 28:88, 16:95–96, 20:73, and 18:46 from its opening to his verdict; the opening of his 19:76 and 87:16–19. Ibn Kathīr at 55:26–27, 28:88 from lā ilāha illā huwa to the close, 16:96, 20:73, 87:17, and 18:46 on al-bāqiyāt aṣ-ṣāliḥāt. As-Saʻdī at 55:26–27, 28:88 from its second half, 16:95–96, and 20:71–73. Al-Mubārakfūrī, Tuḥfat al-Aḥwadhī, vol. 7, p. 142, on at-Tirmidhī 2470, on islamweb. Karlstrom and others, Formation of the Grand Canyon 5 to 6 million years ago through integration of older palaeocanyons, Nature Geoscience 7, 239–244 (2014), the article and its supplement. Search results only, no page opened: the IUGS geoheritage page on the Grand Canyon, a gorge 1.6 kilometers deep and 445 kilometers long.

NOT READ: al-Khalīl’s al-ʻAyn, ar-Rāghib and Lisān al-ʻArab for b-q-y in print; any tafsīr at 19:76 and 87:17 beyond what is recorded above; the route of the Abū Saʻīd report on al-bāqiyāt aṣ-ṣāliḥāt that al-Qurṭubī gives to an-Nasāʼī, outside the six editions, in which it does not stand; aṭ-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr and al-Baghawī give it through Darrāj from Abū l-Haytham, Ibn Kathīr naming Aḥmad for it as well.

OPEN: Whether the occurrence field should read attested now that 20:73 says abqā of Allah Himself; left derived, since the Name’s own form is not in the Qurʼan, for the author — since closed, as recorded below. The poem’s most enduring-looking object on that continent is hyperbole; kept. The story’s carpet losing four fibers a year is an invented figure in an invented collection; kept. The meditation’s language younger than most mountains, not checked; kept.

COHERENCE: the desc, the ref and the notes give the same twenty-one words, the same Ibn Fāris and the same two readings of 28:88 under the same numbers; 55:26–27 is now in Name 85’s English, and Name 85’s 55:26 note and Study Note record it, as does Name 74’s, whose meditation quoted this page’s old English and now quotes the new; the Duʻāʼ page’s Muslim 2713a is linked as another portion with Names 73 to 76 and 89, whose Study Notes record it; the meditation quotes 55:27, 28:88, 18:46, at-Tirmidhī 2470, Muslim 2960 and Muslim 2958a in the book’s English; the story is unchanged.

AFTER NAME 85: its first āyah is linked with Name 85, which carries its two verses separately, as another portion. AFTER THE CHAT-END AUDIT OF 81–85: the grade field of at-Tirmidhī 2470 now gives every grader in the dataset’s rows, each attributed to its record (the grade survey). AFTER THE CHAT-END AUDIT OF 81–85: at-Tirmidhī 2470’s grade cited al-Albānī’s aṣ-Ṣaḥīḥah 2544, a book not read; struck as unchecked, the rows given instead. AFTER THE CHAT-END AUDIT OF 1–99: the link from Name 85 is confirmed: the English of 55:26 here is identical with Name 85’s.

ON THE AUTHOR’S DECISION, THE STATUS LINE: the author keeps derived from verbal usage. The question was whether 20:73 raises it, where wa-llāhu khayrun wa-abqā is said of Allah Himself; it does not, because abqā there is the elative, better and more lasting, and not the participle. This page’s own count found al-Bāqī in no āyah. 20:73 strengthens the derivation and is recorded on the page as doing so; it does not make the Name attested. The item is closed.

ON THE AUTHOR’S LIST, THE RECORDED GROUP: the list gathers in one place the passages of the creative pages that are the author’s own and are kept, so that no later pass corrects them. The entries at this Name are the hyperbole of POEMS 96 and the carpet of CH 96 that loses four fibers a year, an invented figure in an invented collection. This note already records both; that record stands, the passages are unchanged, and they stay with him.

ON THE AUTHOR’S LIST, THE TITLE AND THE RENDERINGS: Name 85 now reads The Lord of Majesty and Honour while the āyāt, the supplications and the reports still read Possessor of Majesty and Generosity. All twenty places were found and weighed one at a time, and every one of them is the book’s own rendering of a verse or of a report and not the book’s own prose; so none of them follows the title, nothing was changed, and whether that English should follow the title stays with the author. At this Name they are the āyah this page carries and the meditation’s quotation of it with its number. AFTER THE TAFSĪR READING AT NAME 96: the commentators the line above left unread at the verses of this page are read, and that line no longer stands as it did. All six were swept for b-q-y at every one of the five entries and every passage carrying the root was read at each, so that al-Qurṭubī, al-Baghawī and Ibn ʻĀshūr, who had been read at no verse of this Name, are now read at all five, and as-Saʻdī at all five as well. Nothing on the page was found false and no claim came off it. What the reading gives the notes, in order: at 55:26–27 al-Qurṭubī weighs what the Face means and chooses, with Ibn Fūrak and Abū l-Maʻālī, that it is an expression for the existence and the essence, grounding the choice on this very verse; at 28:88 the sweep corroborates the note by silence, since three of the six raise no word of the root in their comment at all and only Ibn ʻĀshūr argues the Name, reasoning it from there being no god but He; at 16:96 Ibn ʻĀshūr marks off the withness of this clause, what is laid up for them, from the withness of ownership elsewhere; at 20:73 al-Baghawī gives to Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq and Muḥammad ibn Kaʻb by name the two readings this note has from aṭ-Ṭabarī, and al-Qurṭubī gathers three; and at 18:46 al-Qurṭubī sets out five positions on the enduring good deeds with their holders and endorses the verdict aṭ-Ṭabarī reached, which this note reports, while Ibn ʻĀshūr accounts for the order of the two words. One thing bears on a claim struck at this Name before: the record says that a reading of the exception at 28:88 as an attribute affirmed without asking how was found in no source read, and it is still found in none at that verse; but at 55:26–27 al-Qurṭubī reports from al-Qushayrī that a group held the Face to be an attribute over and above the essence, not asked after as to how, and rejects it. So a named reporter for such a view now stands on the page, at the other verse and against the reporter’s own judgement; the struck claim, which put the reading in the mouths of the commentators at 28:88 and made it their agreement, stays struck. The ḥadīth item this record left unlooked for was looked for: the word bāqiyāt stands in no record of any of the six editions, all six searched with the same normalising used elsewhere and the control word ṣāliḥāt returning eleven records, so neither the Abū Hurayrah report nor the Abū Saʻīd one is in them; al-Qurṭubī ascribes the second to an-Nasāʼī, whose book among the six is the smaller Sunan, so the route is presumably the larger one, which was not run down and is left owed. What is still owed at this Name is the full entry rather than the root passage at each of the five, ar-Rāghib and Lisān al-ʻArab at the root, and the two verses this page names but does not carry; Name 97 stands where the reading list leaves it, with its files downloaded and unread.

IN BUILD 196, FROM THE BACKLOG READING OF THE LEXICA: ar-Rāghib (al-Mufradāt, p. 138), Lisān al-ʻArab (vol. 14, p. 79) and al-Khalīl (al-ʻAyn, vol. 5, p. 230) are read at Shamela through its page reader, not in print, for b-q-y: remaining is a thing holding to its first state, the opposite of passing away; Lisān’s al-bāqī is the One whose existence has no end ahead; al-Khalīl gives baqāʼ as the opposite of fanāʼ and istabqaytu as the senseNote gives it, but his own text gives baqā yabqā as a dialect without naming Ṭayyiʼ, which Ibn Fāris’s quotation of him names, and the senseNote gives it as Ibn Fāris quotes him; nothing on this page is at odds with them, and the NOT READ line owes them only in print; the notes no longer describe their own reading or this page. IN BUILD 199, FROM THE BACKLOG READING OF THE TAFSĪR: the six entries at 55:26–27, 28:88 and 16:96 are read whole from the pinned dataset; at 16:96 Ibn ʻĀshūr’s sense of what is laid up is given to the verse before, where he gives it; al-Qurṭubī’s view of the Face and the words of al-Qushayrī and Abū l-Maʻālī are each given to their owner; as-Saʻdī, the further readings of the Face and Ibn ʻĀshūr’s Face as the essence are given; the NOT READ line owes 20:73 and 18:46. IN BUILD 200, FROM THE BACKLOG READING OF THE TAFSĪR: the six entries at 20:73 and 18:46 are read whole from the pinned dataset, so that each entry of the page is read whole in all six; at 18:46 Ibn ʻĀshūr’s account of the order of the two words is given as he makes it, one sense signified twice, the first time in the verse before, and the argument for the daughters is given to al-Qurṭubī, whose it is; as-Saʻdī is given there and at 20:73, where Ibn Kathīr’s second reading from Ibn Isḥāq and Ibn ʻĀshūr’s reading are given too, and the note says that each of the six gives the elative what of His lasts; the occasion three of the six give at 18:46 and their reports on the words of remembrance are not given; the route of the Abū Saʻīd report is narrowed to an-Nasāʼī’s; the NOT READ line owes no tafsīr entry.

IN BUILD 204, FROM THE PHASE 2 READING: the National Park Service gives the canyon 277 miles, 446 kilometres, long, and at its deepest 6,000 vertical feet, 1,829 metres, from rim to river; the poem’s over a mile down at the deepest holds by it, the 1.6 kilometres of the IUGS page being the lesser figure, and its four hundred and forty-five kilometres is the IUGS page’s rounding of the same length; the NOT READ line no longer owes the Park Service. IN BUILD 205, FROM THE READING OF THE ḤADĪTH COMMENTARY: al-Qārī’s Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ on the report of the sheep (vol. 4, p. 1346), read through Shamela’s page reader, not in print, gives the slaughterers as the Companions, from Ibn al-Malak, or the household, the more apparent, the shoulder as what was not given in charity, and all of it remains as pointing to the verse of what is with Allah; al-Mubārakfūrī’s glosses are his in nearly the same words and name no source; the note now says so, and the search-results line no longer owes al-Qārī.

IN BUILD 206, FROM THE BACKLOG READING OF THE GRADES: the grades of Ibn Mājah’s list are read in the editions’ text at Shamela through its page reader, not in print: al-Albānī grades the report ṣaḥīḥ without the enumeration of the Names; Shuʻayb al-Arnaʼūṭ gives its isnād as ḍaʻīf with the Names, their naming an insertion by some narrators, the report without them standing in al-Bukhārī; Muḥammad Fuʼād ʻAbd al-Bāqī’s edition gives no verdict of its own and quotes az-Zawāʼid, that Ibn Mājah’s route is ḍaʻīf; the ṣaḥīḥ and ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ this page gave the list were the dataset’s rows and not the editions’ verdicts on it, and the ref and the line on the six editions now give the editions’ verdicts, and the OPEN line no longer carries that question from Name 94.

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