The subject of jami`, gathering or combining, is referred to in several verses of the Holy
Qura'n such as the following:
Allah: there is no god but He; He will most certainly gather you together on the Resurrection
Day; there is no doubt about it. (4:87) He has ordained mercy on Himself; most surely He will
gather you on the Day of Resurrection, there is no doubt about it. (6:12) And on that Day, We
will leave some of them in conflict with others, and the trumpet will be blown, so We will
gather them all together. (18:99) Say: Our Lord will gather us together, then will He judge
between us with the truth, and He is the greatest Judge, the all-Knowing. (34:26) Say: Allah
gives you life, then He causes you to die, then He will gather you to the Day of Resurrection
wherein there is no doubt... (45:26)
And one of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and what He has spread forth
in both of them of living beings, and when He pleases, He is all-Powerful to gather them
together. (42:29) On the Day when He gathers you for the Day of Gathering, that is the Day
of loss and gain: whoever believes in Allah and does good, He will remove from him his evil
and cause him to enter gardens beneath which rivers flow to abide therein forever; that is the
great achievement. (64:9)
One whose knowledge is perfected and whose conduct is good deserves to be called jami`.
For this reason, a perfect person is one who does not put out the light of his piety by the light
of his knowledge; so is one who combines perfect vision with foresight.
- "Al-Ghaniyy"
Allah has said, O men! You are the ones who stand in need of Allah while Allah is self-
Sufficient, Praiseworthy. (35:15)
Both "al-Ghaniyy" and "al-Mughni" are among the Attributes of Allah.
Linguistically, ghina, the root word of "al-Ghaniyy", means: independence by virtue of
having self-sufficiency. It is the opposite of faqr, poverty, want, indigence, need, and the like.
Independence or self-sufficiency is of various types: one is the absence of need, and none is
independent of needing anyone or anything other than Allah. This meaning is implied in the
verse saying, "His is whatever in the heavens and in the earth, and most surely Allah is the
self-Sufficient, the Praised" (Qura'n, 22:64). The other is the small or limited number of one's
needs, which is pointed out in this verse: "And found you in want and made you free from
want" (Qura'n, 93:8). A third is what is mentioned by a few ignorant folks among the
unbelievers who claimed that Allah was poor while they were rich, whereupon the One Who
has all the Glory and Honours responded by telling them that "Allah has certainly heard the