الْمُؤَخِّرُ
AL-MU’AKHKHIR
The Delayer, The One who puts things in their right places. He makes ahead what He wills and delays what He wills.
Allah is Al-Mu’akhkhir, The One who delays or holds back. By his will, he can detain unbelievers on the day of judgement and hold them back.
Mentions From The Quran & Hadith
From the root a-kh-r which has the following classical Arabic connotations: to cause to go back, backwards, retreat, recede to retire, to drive back to put behind or after to cause to remain behind, hang back, lag behind to postpone, put off, delay, retard
Allah will forgive you of your sins and delay you for a specified term. Indeed, the time [set by] Allah, when it comes, will not be delayed, if you only knew.’ (Quran 71:4)
يَغْفِرْ لَكُم مِّن ذُنُوبِكُمْ وَيُؤَخِّرْكُمْ إِلَىٰ أَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى ۚ إِنَّ أَجَلَ اللَّهِ إِذَا جَاءَ لَا يُؤَخَّرُ ۖ لَوْ كُنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ ﴿٤﴾
So the shriek seized them in truth, and We made them as [plant] stubble. Then away with the wrongdoing people. (Quran 23:41)
فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ الصَّيْحَةُ بِالْحَقِّ فَجَعَلْنَاهُمْ غُثَاءً ۚ فَبُعْدًا لِّلْقَوْمِ الظَّالِمِينَ ﴿٤١﴾
And as for those who disbelieve, there is heaviness (deafness) in their ears, and it (the Quran) is blindness for them. They are those who are called from a place far away (so they neither listen nor understand) (Quran 41:44)
