Al Baqi - The Everlasting

Acrylic Painting on Canvas, 90x90 cm by Art Noor

An abstract expressionistic work with One of the 99 divine names of Allah.

Al Baqi - The Everlasting 

This divine attribute and the name means

He whose existence has no end, He who exists evermore. He who exists from eternity and going to remain forever to eternity.

All that is on earth will perish: But WILL ABIDE (FOREVER) THE FACE OF THY LORD, Full of Majesty, Bounty, and Honor. The Holy Quran (55:26-27)

“What is with you must vanish; what is with God will endure” (NAHL, 96).
He will never perish and non-existence can never afflict Him; His Existence is eternal and permanent.

The related term baqā’, which is from the same b-q-y root, is often translated as eternal life. In the state of baqā’ bi-llāh there is a return from the ephemeral to the eternal, a shift from the egocentric to the Divine, where all that remains is the eternal Thou.
The return to the Everlasting, the return from one’s worldly preoccupation with the ephemeral, the shift away from one’s own ego being treated as the center of life, is often called fanā’ which literally means to fade away, dwindle, recede or come to an end.