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99 Al-Muḥṣī

  • Dec 4, 2025
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Al-Muḥṣī (ٱلْمُحْصِي)

The Reckoner, The One Who Knows and Records All Things

Pronounced: al-muḤ-SEE Root: أ-ح-ص (Ḥ-Ṣ-Y) — to count, to encompass, to take full account, to know something in its every detail

Original Invocation (Arabic Calligraphy):ٱلْمُحْصِي



Sacred Reflection


Al-Muḥṣī is the One who misses nothing.

Not a breath.

Not a wound.

Not a whispered prayer you thought dissolved in the dark.


He is not the cold accountant of your life.

He is the One who holds the complete story

when you can only remember fragments.


Every tear you hid.

Every sacrifice no one saw.

Every attempt you made to rise.

Every moment you broke quietly so the world would not hear.


Al-Muḥṣī has counted it all.


In Sufi cosmology, this Name does not mean surveillance.

It means intimate knowing.

The kind that gathers every detail of your existence

not to condemn you,

but to show you:


You have never lived an unnoticed moment.


Nothing is lost.

Nothing forgotten.

Nothing ignored.


He knows the exact weight of what you carry

and the exact measure of what you have endured.


And where you see only failures,

He sees the full ledger.

The courage that kept trying.

The faith that flickered but never fully died.

The small good deeds that changed more than you will ever know.


He is the Keeper of your truth

when your own memory becomes fogged with shame.



Parts Work Invitation


What part of you feels unseen?


The one that whispers:

“No one knows what I’ve been through.”

“No one understands the cost.”

“My suffering vanished into silence.”


Let that part come close to Al-Muḥṣī.


Let it hear:


“I have counted every step you took in the dark.

I have recorded every hurt that shaped you.

I know the whole of you.

Not just the wounds you regret,

but the bravery you forget.”


Let it feel:


This is not a God who waits to tally your failures.

This is a God who has already preserved

the evidence of your goodness.

Your endurance.

Your heart.


Let the part rest in the relief that:


You were never invisible.

Not for a moment.


Al-Muḥṣī holds the archive of your soul.

And in His keeping,

nothing precious is ever lost.


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