Muslim Name · Male · Arabic origin
Tariq Name Meaning in Islam
The morning star; one who knocks at the door at night.
- Meaning
- The morning star; one who knocks at the door at night. Surat al-Ṭāriq (86)
- Origin
- Arabic
- Gender
- Boy
- Arabic root
- ط-ر-ق
- Urdu
- طارق
- Pronunciation
- TAA-riq /ˈtˤaː.riq/
- Lucky number
- 4
Is Tariq an Islamic name? Yes. Tariq is an established name in Muslim use, Arabic in origin. Its settled meaning is: The morning star; one who knocks at the door at night. Surat al-Ṭāriq (86). 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
ط-ر-ق. From ṭ-r-q, to knock or strike, and the night-traveler who arrives by knocking.
Section 2 · Ilm ul Huroof
Read Letter by Letter
Ta firmness, Alif origin, Ra mercy, Qaf nearness.
Section 3 · Synthesis
What This Reading Says About You
Tariq'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 Al-Lateef, the Subtle, carried by a person as a subtle, sun-warm attention. A person named Tariq lives with more inside them than any one word can hold.
Section 4 · What Families Say
What People Usually Mean by This Name
Ṭāriq (طارق) comes from the Arabic root ط-ر-ق, to knock, to come at night, to strike with sudden force. The Qurʾān names a complete short surah after the word: wa-s-samāʾi wa-ṭ-ṭāriq, wa-mā adrāka mā ṭ-ṭāriq, an-najmu th-thāqib, 'By the sky, and by the night-comer; what will make you understand what the night-comer is? It is the piercing star' (Surat aṭ-Ṭāriq 86:1–3). The classical commentators identify aṭ-Ṭāriq variously as Venus at dawn, the morning star, or any heavenly body that 'strikes' the night with bright presence.
The name is also borne by Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād (d. ca. 720 CE), the Berber Umayyad commander who in 711 CE crossed the strait from Tangier and conquered the Visigothic Iberian peninsula, founding what would become al-Andalus. The strait and the rock from which he launched his invasion preserve his name: Jabal Ṭāriq (the Rock of Tariq) is the Arabic original of Gibraltar. The name is widespread across the entire Muslim world. Notable modern bearers include Tariq Ramadan, the Swiss-Egyptian academic, and Tariq Aziz, the Iraqi politician.
Section 5 · Bearers
Who Has Carried This Name
- Ṭāriq ibn Ziyādc.670–720 CE·North Africa / al-AndalusCommander who led the conquest of Iberia in 711; namesake of Gibraltar (Jabal Ṭāriq)
- Tariq Ramadanb.1962·SwitzerlandIslamic scholar
How to Pronounce Tariq
/ˈtˤaː.riq/ Emphatic ṭ; uvular q at the end.Is this the spelling you searched?
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Names sharing the ط Ta influence
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Frequently Asked Questions
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What does the name Tariq mean?
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Is Tariq mentioned in the Quran?
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What does Tariq mean in Urdu?
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What is the spiritual meaning of Tariq in Ilm ul Huroof?
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