Muslim Girl Names Meaning Guidance

What Muslim names meaning guidance have in common

Huda, guidance, comes from a root that also gives hadiyyah, a gift. Guidance in this tradition is something handed over rather than achieved, which is why the opening chapter of the Quran asks for it as a request rather than claiming it. Rushd is different: the soundness of judgment that comes with maturity, and Rashid means one who has it.

The classical roots this meaning is carried by:

• ه-د-يhuda, guidance, from a root that also means to give a gift.
• ر-ش-دrushd, right direction, maturity of judgment.

Most looked-up Muslim girl names meaning guidance

Ordered by how often visitors open them on AsrNaam, from our own Search Console figures rather than from a guess at what is in fashion this year.

1. HadiyaهديةGift, guide, the divine gift and the one who guides to what is right
2. Nurhidayahنور ہدایہLight of guidance, Malay compound name
3. BayyinahبينةClear Evidence, Surah 98, the clear proof of divine guidance
4. DalilaدليلةGuide, proof, feminine of Dalil
5. HidayahهدايةDivine guidance, Malay/Indonesian girls name
6. HidayatہدايتGuidance
7. HodaهدىGuidance
8. HoudaهُدَىGuidance
9. HudaهُدَىGuidance, same word as al-hudā in the Quran
10. NajmaنجمةStar, the guiding light in the sky of the soul

Arabic girl names meaning guidance

Every name here is an Arabic or Arabic-script name, and in Ilm ul Huroof the reading starts from the letter it opens with, not from the English transliteration. These are the letters that open the names in this theme.

• هHa (light) opens 6 of them, among them Hadiya, Hidayah, Hidayat.
• نNun opens 6 of them, among them Nurhidayah, Najma, Nour Houda.
• رRa opens 2 of them, among them Rachida, Rashida.

Each letter links to its element, abjad value and divine name. All twenty-eight letters.

Islamic girl names meaning guidance

A name is Islamic through its meaning and through the absence of any claim on what belongs to God alone, not through its sound. That is what this page is sorted on: every name here has been read against the classical lexicons and placed under guidance because that is what it means, not because it resembles a word.

2 of them are Quranic, appearing in the Quran or borne by a figure named in it.

Hidayahهداية Hudaهُدَى

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Muslim boy names meaning guidance

Looking for a boy name name instead? 12 boy names names mean guidance.

Rashidراشد Dalilدليل Mehdiمهدي Abdulhadiعبدالهادي Arshadأرشد Haadiهادي Hadiهادي Khawajaخواجہ Khidrالخضر Mahdiمهدي

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