[Note that the notes are taken from Tahir Wyatt’s series on Allah’s names.]
Linguistic Meaning
The person (doer) who does something is in the form of verb “faa-il” الفاعل. Some of the human names that come in this form are as follows: Sawbir (root word: sabr. So the person who does that action is called Sawbir), Shaakir, Jaabir, Sadiq, etc.
Now we also have what is known as “Sighat l-mubalagha” (exaggeration). We’ll find many names of Allah in this. Some of such names also come in the form of “fa’aal” فعال. For eg:
1. Gaffar: So somebody who forgives is “gafir” but somebody who continues to forgive is “gaffar”
2. So al-Wahhab means: The Ever Giving, the Bestower
Tarbiyah by Ilm 