Al-Mumeet causes your heart to die when you fail to remember Him, and your soul to die
when you continuously permit yourself to slip away from His right path, and your mind to die
when you permit your desires to take control of you. Al-Muhyi brings life to the hearts of
those who know and who willingly submit to Him, while al-Mumeet causes the [spiritual]
death of those who go against His will.
- "Al-Qayyum"
Allah has said, "Alif, Lam, Mim. Allah, (there is) no god but He, the ever-Living, the self-
Subsisting, the One through Whom all things subsist" (Qura'n, 3:1-2).
One who is qayyim is a master and organizer of affairs. The "qayyim creed" is the Hanafi
faith. The day of qiyama is the Day when everyone will stand before Allah, Lord of the
Worlds, for judgment. Al-Qayyum is never created, Who manages all affairs.
Al-Qayyum exists absolutely on His own, not through others, while every being exists through
Him and because of Him. Nothing, no life whatever, can ever be sustained without Him. Al-
Qayyum is the ever-Lasting, the Eternal Who never suffers extinction. He effects justice and
equity, Who is self-Sustaining, Who never sleeps.
According to Abdullah ibn `Abbas, whenever the Messenger of Allah used to stand up to
perform his night prayers, he would say, "Lord! All Praise is due to You! You are the Lord of
the heavens and the earth! All Praise is due to You! You are the Qayyum of the heavens and
the earth and everything in them; all Praise is due to You! You are the Light of the heavens
and the earth; all Praise is due to You! You are the King in the heavens and the earth; all
Praise is due to You! You are the Truth; Your promise is true, the meeting with You is true,
Your speech is the truth; Paradise is true; the fire is true; the prophets are truthful;
Muhammed is truthful, and the Hour is true! Lord! To You have I submitted; in You have I
believed; upon You have I relied; to You is my return; for Your sake do I dispute; Your
judgment do I seek; so, I implore You to forgive my sins, the ones I have committed and the
ones I may commit in the future, what I have concealed and what I have declared, for You are
the One Who advances and Who postpones; there is no god but You, and there is no strength
nor might except in Allah."
According to another tradition, he has invoked His Maker saying, "O Hayy! O Qayyum! We
solicit Your help by Your mercy! Lord! I invoke You to mend my affairs, all of them, and not
to permit me to rely on my own self even for a twinkling of the eye, nor for a shorter time, nor
on anyone from among Your creation."
Imam Ali has said, "During the Battle of Badr, I participated in the battle for some time, then I came to the Messenger of Allah to see what he was doing, and I found him making sajdah while repeating,O Hayy! O Qayyum!' So I went back to the battle-field, then I came back to