أَمَل
Girl Arabic origin Amal
In the Quran“Hope”, the confident expectation of good
The word as it is recited in the Quran: Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary, Al-Kahf 18:46.
The word occurs twice in the Quran: “Wealth and children are the adornment of worldly life; but the enduring good deeds are better with your Lord in reward and better in hope” (18:46). The other verse warns against hope that distracts (15:3).
Amal is the verbal noun of amala, “to hope”: it is the expectation of a desired good. Muslim moralists distinguish hope that spurs action from the “long hope” (tul al-amal) that makes one forget death. A very common feminine name: Amel in the Maghreb, Amal in the Middle East, Emel in Turkey.
Yes: the word Amal appears in the Quran 2 times, in 2 surahs.
ٱلْمَالُ وَٱلْبَنُونَ زِينَةُ ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا وَٱلْبَٰقِيَٰتُ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتُ خَيْرٌ عِندَ رَبِّكَ ثَوَابًا وَخَيْرٌ أَمَلًا ٤٦
Wealth and children are [but] adornment of the worldly life. But the enduring good deeds are better to your Lord for reward and better for [one's] hope.
ذَرْهُمْ يَأْكُلُوا۟ وَيَتَمَتَّعُوا۟ وَيُلْهِهِمُ ٱلْأَمَلُ فَسَوْفَ يَعْلَمُونَ ٣
Let them eat and enjoy themselves and be diverted by [false] hope, for they are going to know.
All the words of the root أ م ل in the Quran (2 occurrences)
No text or scholarly opinion concerns the name Amal in particular: the general rules of Islam apply.
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