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Afaf

عفافIn Arabic

Meaning
Chastity; modesty and restraint from what is wrong
About the name
A supplication of the Prophet recorded in Sahih Muslim asks God for guidance, piety, chastity (al-'afaf) and sufficiency. In Tunisia the name is written Afef.
For
A girl
Origin
Arabic
Other spellings
Afaaf, Afef

Islamic naming guidance

  • Permissible

Draft: not yet reviewed by a scholar. This is not a fatwa.

Good meaning, nothing against it in the sources

Confidence: medium

Sources

No source is recorded for this ruling yet.

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