الْقَادِرُ
AL-QADIR
(The Omnipotent One)
The Able, The Capable, The One attributed with Power.
Allah is Al-Qaadir, the most powerful with the ability to measure out everything. Whenever he decrees a thing, it is. Nothing can interrupt or disturb the will of Allah.
Mentions From The Quran & Hadith
From the root q-d-r which has the following classical Arabic connotations: to measure something to make manifest the measure of something to distribute or apportion (as though by measure), measure-out to decree, to ordain, to decide a matter (as though measuring it to fit) to exercise thought in preparing something, to make use of reason (measuring out) to have the power to accomplish, to be rendered able, capable to be able to prevail, to be empowered, to have control over
Do they not see that Allah, who created the heavens and earth and did not fail in their creation, is able to give life to the dead? Yes. Indeed, He is over all things competent. (Quran 46:33)
أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا أَنَّ اللَّهَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَلَمْ يَعْيَ بِخَلْقِهِنَّ بِقَادِرٍ عَلَىٰ أَن يُحْيِيَ الْمَوْتَىٰ ۚ بَلَىٰ إِنَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ ﴿٣٣﴾
Is not that [Creator] Able to give life to the dead? (Quran 75:40)
أَلَيْسَ ذَٰلِكَ بِقَادِرٍ عَلَىٰ أَن يُحْيِيَ الْمَوْتَىٰ ﴿٤٠﴾
Say, “He is the [one] Able to send upon you affliction from above you or from beneath your feet or to confuse you [so you become] sects and make you taste the violence of one another.” Look how We diversify the signs that they might understand. (Quran 6:65)
قُلْ هُوَ الْقَادِرُ عَلَىٰ أَن يَبْعَثَ عَلَيْكُمْ عَذَابًا مِّن فَوْقِكُمْ أَوْ مِن تَحْتِ أَرْجُلِكُمْ أَوْ يَلْبِسَكُمْ شِيَعًا وَيُذِيقَ بَعْضَكُم بَأْسَ بَعْضٍ ۗ انظُرْ كَيْفَ نُصَرِّفُ الْآيَاتِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَفْقَهُونَ ﴿٦٥﴾
