ٱلْحَدِيد : ٣

  • هُوَ He
  • ٱلۡأَوَّلُ (is) the First
  • وَٱلۡأٓخِرُ and the Last
  • وَٱلظَّـٰهِرُ and the Apparent
  • وَٱلۡبَاطِنُۖ and the Unapparent
  • وَهُوَ and He
  • بِكُلِّ (is) of every
  • شَيۡءٍ thing
  • عَلِيمٌ All-Knower
He is the First1 and the Last, the Ascendant and the Intimate, and He is, of all things, Knowing.
Footnotes
1

Before whom nothing existed. Also, He who is supreme, foremost or uppermost.

[1624] Enduring eternally when nothing else remains.

[1625] Nothing being above Him. Another meaning is "the Apparent," i.e., evident through His creation and revelation.

[1626] Nothing being nearer than Him by way of His knowledge. Another meaning is "the Unapparent," i.e., concealed from man's physical senses.

He is the First, preceding everything [but] without [His] having any beginning, and the Last, succeeding everything [but] without [His] having any end, and the Manifest, through the proofs for Him, and the Hidden, from the perception of the senses, and He has knowledge of all things.