Irfan
عرفانIn Arabic
- Meaning
- Knowledge and awareness, especially spiritual
- About the name
- In Islamic mysticism, irfan means a direct spiritual knowledge close to gnosis.
- For
- A boy
- Origin
- Arabic
- Other spellings
- Erfan, Irfane
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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