Raouf
رؤوفIn Arabic
- Meaning
- Compassionate, tender-hearted
- For
- A boy
- Origin
- Arabic
- Other spellings
- Ra'uf, Raof, Raoof, Rauf
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-Ra'uf (the Kind) is also one of Allah's names (Qur'an 2:143). IslamQA accepts a person bearing such a name when its divine meaning is not what is intended.
Confidence: high
Sources
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