Latif
لطيفIn Arabic
- Meaning
- Gentle, kind, subtle
- For
- A boy
- Origin
- Arabic
- Other spellings
- Lateef, Letif
Islamic naming guidance
- Permissible
Draft: not yet reviewed by a scholar. This is not a fatwa.
Good meaning, nothing against it in the sources
Al-Latif is also a name of Allah. Ibn Uthaymin, quoted by IslamQA, allows a person to bear such a name without 'al-' when the divine meaning is not intended.
Confidence: high
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