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• The paired divine attribute “Al-Latif Al-Khabir” (variously rendered “the Subtle, the Aware” / “the All Subtle, the All Aware”) appears in exactly five verses of the Qur’an: 6:103 (Al-An’am), 22:63 (Al-Hajj), 31:16 (Luqman), 33:34 (Al-Ahzab), and 67:14 (Al-Mulk).
• The single name “Latif” occurs seven times in the Qur’an (per the Utrujj Foundation: “The name Al Latif has been mentioned in the Quran seven times”), but in the other two locations (12:100 and 42:19) it is paired with different attributes (al-ʿAlim al-Hakim and al-Qawiyy al-ʿAziz, respectively), not with al-Khabir. Utrujj
• Each of the five verses is presented below with the Surah name and number, the full Uthmani Arabic text, and the verbatim English rendering by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem (Oxford World’s Classics, Oxford University Press).

Key Findings

The phrase appears in three grammatical forms across the five verses:

1. Definite nominative pair — اللَّطِيفُ الْخَبِيرُ (al-laṭīfu l-khabīr): 6:103 and 67:14, where Allah is the explicit subject (“He is the…”).
2. Indefinite nominative pair — لَطِيفٌ خَبِيرٌ (laṭīfun khabīr): 22:63 and 31:16, following the particle إِنَّ (“Indeed Allah is…”).
3. Indefinite accusative pair — لَطِيفًا خَبِيرًا (laṭīfan khabīrā): 33:34, following كَانَ (“Allah is ever…”).

All five are terminal clauses of doctrinal verses that fold back on a theological argument — God’s transcendence beyond sight (6:103), His subtle agency in nature (22:63), His exhaustive knowledge of even the smallest hidden act (31:16), the special status of revelation in the Prophet’s household (33:34), and His knowledge of His own creation (67:14).

Details

1. Al-An’am 6:103

Arabic: لَّا تُدْرِكُهُ ٱلْأَبْصَـٰرُ وَهُوَ يُدْرِكُ ٱلْأَبْصَـٰرَ ۖ وَهُوَ ٱللَّطِيفُ ٱلْخَبِيرُ Islam Awakened +3

Abdel Haleem (Oxford World’s Classics): “No vision can take Him in, but He takes in all vision. He is the All Subtle, the All Aware.” IslamiCityQuran

Note: The classic theological statement on God’s transcendence — He cannot be perceived by sight, yet His perception encompasses all sight.

2. Al-Hajj 22:63

Arabic: أَلَمْ تَرَ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ أَنزَلَ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءً فَتُصْبِحُ ٱلْأَرْضُ مُخْضَرَّةً ۗ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَطِيفٌ خَبِيرٌ Islam Awakened

Abdel Haleem (Oxford World’s Classics): “Have you [Prophet] not considered how God sends water down from the sky and the next morning the earth becomes green? God is truly most subtle, all aware;” Quran O +2

Note: Abdel Haleem ends the verse with a semicolon because, in his prose-style rendering, verses 63 and 64 run on as a single argument from natural sign to divine sovereignty.

3. Luqman 31:16

Arabic: يَـٰبُنَىَّ إِنَّهَآ إِن تَكُ مِثْقَالَ حَبَّةٍ مِّنْ خَرْدَلٍ فَتَكُن فِى صَخْرَةٍ أَوْ فِى ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ أَوْ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ يَأْتِ بِهَا ٱللَّهُ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَطِيفٌ خَبِيرٌ AlimQuranhive

Abdel Haleem (Oxford World’s Classics): “[And Luqman continued], ‘My son, if even the weight of a mustard seed were hidden in a rock or anywhere in the heavens or earth, God would bring it [to light], for He is all subtle and all aware.” My Islam

Note: Spoken by the sage Luqman to his son. The pair here functions as the basis for moral accountability — nothing escapes divine notice.

4. Al-Ahzab 33:34

Arabic: وَٱذْكُرْنَ مَا يُتْلَىٰ فِى بُيُوتِكُنَّ مِنْ ءَايَـٰتِ ٱللَّهِ وَٱلْحِكْمَةِ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ كَانَ لَطِيفًا خَبِيرًا Quran.com +2

Abdel Haleem (Oxford World’s Classics): “Remember what is recited in your houses of God’s revelations and wisdom, for God is all subtle, all aware.” My Islam

Note: Addressed to the wives of the Prophet. The accusative form لَطِيفًا خَبِيرًا (laṭīfan khabīran) is grammatically distinctive among the five.

5. Al-Mulk 67:14

Arabic: أَلَا يَعْلَمُ مَنْ خَلَقَ وَهُوَ ٱللَّطِيفُ ٱلْخَبِيرُ Islam Awakened +2

Abdel Haleem (Oxford World’s Classics): “How could He who created not know His own creation, when He is the Most Subtle, the All Aware?” My IslamQuran.com

Note: The shortest verse of the five and rhetorically the most condensed. Abdel Haleem renders it as a rhetorical question matching the Arabic interrogative أَلَا.