آمِنَة
Girl Arabic origin Āmina
Family of the Prophet ﷺIn the Quran“She who is safe, serene”
The word as it is recited in the Quran: Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary, An-Nahl 16:112.
Amina bint Wahb was the mother of the Prophet ﷺ; she died at al-Abwaʾ, between Mecca and Medina, when he was about six. The word amina appears once in the Quran, for a town “that was secure and at peace” (16:112).
Amina is the feminine active participle of amina, “to be safe, to trust”, from the root ʾ-m-n, which also gives aman (“security”), amana (“trust, loyalty”) and iman (“faith”). The name means “she who is safe, at peace”. It becomes Emna in Tunisia, Aminata in West Africa and Emine in Turkey.
Yes: the word Amina appears in the Quran once, in one surah.
وَضَرَبَ ٱللَّهُ مَثَلًا قَرْيَةً كَانَتْ ءَامِنَةً مُّطْمَئِنَّةً يَأْتِيهَا رِزْقُهَا رَغَدًا مِّن كُلِّ مَكَانٍ فَكَفَرَتْ بِأَنْعُمِ ٱللَّهِ فَأَذَٰقَهَا ٱللَّهُ لِبَاسَ ٱلْجُوعِ وَٱلْخَوْفِ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَصْنَعُونَ ١١٢
And Allāh presents an example: a city [i.e., Makkah] which was safe and secure, its provision coming to it in abundance from every location, but it denied the favors of Allāh. So Allāh made it taste the envelopment of hunger and fear for what they had been doing.
All the words of the root أ م ن in the Quran (879 occurrences)
No text or scholarly opinion concerns the name Amina in particular: the general rules of Islam apply.
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