Muslim Name · Male · Arabic origin
Dhul Faqar Name Meaning in Islam
Dual-spine sword.
- Meaning
- Dual-spine sword. Ali sword name
- Origin
- Arabic
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ف-ق-ر
- Urdu
- ذوالفقار
- Pronunciation
- dhul-FA-qar
- Lucky number
- 2
Is Dhul Faqar an Islamic name? Yes. Dhul Faqar is an established name in Muslim use, Arabic in origin. Its settled meaning is: Dual-spine sword. Ali sword name. Islamic tradition asks that a name carry a good meaning and claim nothing that belongs to God alone, and this name meets both.
Read the letter-by-letter reading ↓Section 1 · Arabic Root
Where the Name Comes From
ف-ق-ر. From the root f-q-r (spine, vertebra). Dhū al-Faqār, 'the one with the notch / the cleaver of vertebrae', was the sword the Prophet ﷺ gave to ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib at Uhud, and the most famous blade in Islamic history.
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
Dhal carries remembrance of the prophetic gift, Waw connects giver to receiver, Lam joins the blade to the hand of justice, Fa opens the path of victory, Qaf is the heart-reach of the warrior, and Ra is the mercy carried even in the sword.
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
Dhul Faqar's letters draw from many elements at once, a full palette, not a single note. This is a name that asks its bearer to hold contradictions gracefully: warmth and steadiness, movement and depth. Running through the reading is Dhul-Jalal, the Lord of Majesty, carried by a person as an ancient, weighty seriousness. A person named Dhul Faqar lives with more inside them than any one word can hold.
Section 4 · What Families Say
What People Usually Mean by This Name
The dual-spined sword. Dhul-Faqar (ذو الفقار), literally 'the one with vertebrae' or 'the one with notches.' This is the name of the famous sword of Ali ibn Abi Talib (RA), given to him by the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ at the Battle of Badr in 624 CE.
The sword was originally captured from the Quraysh chief Munabbih ibn al-Hajjaj, who fell at Badr. The Prophet gifted it to Ali, who carried it through every subsequent battle. After the Battle of Uhud, when Ali had distinguished himself by extraordinary courage in the defence of the Prophet ﷺ, the famous voice from the heavens proclaimed: 'La sayfa illa Dhul-Faqar, la fata illa Ali', 'There is no sword but Dhul-Faqar, and no youth but Ali.' The phrase became a famous Muslim battle cry across centuries.
Ali kept the sword until his martyrdom in 661 CE; it then passed to his son Hasan, then to Husayn, then through the family of the Prophet. Classical Islamic historians say Dhul-Faqar was inscribed with verses about justice, mercy, and the prohibition of unjust killing. To name a son Dhul-Faqar is to name him after this most legendary sword in Islamic history, and through it, after the courage and justice of Ali himself.
Used as a boys name across South Asian Shi'a Muslim communities and beyond. Variants: Dhul-Faqar, Zulfiqar, Zulfikar, Dhul-Fikar.
Section 5 · Bearers
Who Has Carried This Name
- Ali ibn Abi Talibc. 600–661 CE·ArabiaCousin and son-in-law of the Prophet, fourth Caliph; bearer of the sword Dhul-Faqar
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