Al-Hafiz (الحفيظ): Meaning of Allah’s Name

The One Who protects and preserves what He created and Whose Knowledge encompasses all that He brought into existence. The One Who protects His friends from falling into sins and the destructive matters. The One Who is Kind to them during their periods of activity and rest. The One Who accounts the actions of the servants and their rewards.

"And Iblees did prove true his thought about them, and they followed him, all except a group of the true believers. And Iblees had no authority over them - except that We might test he who believes in the Hereafter from him who is in doubt about it. And your Lord is the Guardian over everything." (34:20-21)

"As for those who take friends and protectors besides Him - Allaah is the Guardian over them and you are not a disposer of their affairs." (42:6)

He, the Exalted said:

“Surely, my Lord is Guardian over all things.” (Hud: 57)

The Linguistic Meaning:

Preserving the thing, maintaining it and not forgetting.

God, is Al-Hafeedh: Who guards the heavens and the earth, and all that is amongst them, forbidding them their demise until a specific date, He said: “ Verily! Allah grasps the heavens and the earth lest they should move away from their places.” (Fatir: 41).

He, the Exalted, preserves the deeds of the slaves and what evil or good things they did; He saves His slaves from destructive results; He preserves His believers from committing grave sins, from harming their belief, and He strengthens their certainty away from doubt, suspicion and wrong desires.

The Grandeur of Al-Hafeedh

God, All-Mighty, preserves all things, keeping their nature and description. He is able to maintain the paradoxes and contradictions, as in the case of fire and water, for they are contrary to each other: the water can distinguish the fire or the fire can evaporate the water transforming it into vapor. God has combined contrasts in all elements and components, and in all living organisms such as humans, plants and animals. Without His Ability to preserve and control these factors, these elements would move away from one another, and shrink in their composition, and these are the factors that preserve the human being from total destruction and secure his life by way of God’s Preserving Ability.