Discover the meaning of the term Akhr (آخر) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 1 min readThe thing: to place it after its position. Al-akhar: one of two things, both of one kind. Meaning 'other': one says 'another man', 'another garment'.
Al-akhir: the opposite of the first. One of God Most High's names: the One abiding after the annihilation of His creation, the eternal without beginning or end; in the Qur'an: 'He is the First and the Last' (al-Hadid, 3).
The example (al-mithal) is what is obtained within perception from the realities of sensible things, becoming subtler than the sensible thing, thereby presenting a meaning like the intelligible meaning; the more manifest of the two serves as an example for the subtler.