وَٱذْكُرِ ٱسْمَ رَبِّكَ وَتَبَتَّلْ إِلَيْهِ تَبْتِيلًا ٨
And remember the name of your Lord and devote yourself to Him with [complete] devotion.
بَتُول
Batool: meaning of the name
Girl Arabic origin Batūl
Family of the Prophet ﷺ“She who devotes herself to Allah”; al-Batul, epithet of Maryam and Fatima
Batool in Islam
Tradition gives the epithet al-Batul to Maryam, dedicated to Allah even before her birth (3:35), and to Fatima, daughter of the Prophet ﷺ. The Quran uses the verb from the same root: “Remember the name of your Lord and devote yourself to Him completely” (73:8). The Prophet ﷺ, however, refused ʿUthman ibn Mazʿun permission to renounce marriage (al-Bukhari 5073).
Meaning of the name Batool
Batul comes from the root b-t-l, “to cut off, to separate”: the old dictionaries define the batul as a virgin who keeps apart from marriage, and also as a woman detached from this world to devote herself to Allah. It is this second sense, devotion, that the name carries. Tradition gives this epithet to Maryam, mother of ʿIsa, and to Fatima, daughter of the Prophet ﷺ. Betül is a very popular name in Turkey.
- In Arabic
- بَتُول بتول
- Transliteration
- Batūl
- Root
- ب ت ل · 2 occurrences in the Quran
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Arabic
Is Batool in the Quran?
The name Batool does not appear as such in the Quran, but its root (ب ت ل) occurs 2 times. Examples:
All the words of the root ب ت ل in the Quran (2 occurrences)
In the hadiths
Authentic
Muttafaq ‘alayh (Bukhari and Muslim) Sahih al-Bukhari 5073
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade `Uthman bin Maz'un to abstain from marrying (and other pleasures) and if he had allowed him, we would have gotten ourselves castrated.
رَدَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم عَلَى عُثْمَانَ بْنِ مَظْعُونٍ التَّبَتُّلَ، وَلَوْ أَذِنَ لَهُ لاَخْتَصَيْنَا
Is this name permissible?
No text or scholarly opinion concerns the name Batool in particular: the general rules of Islam apply.
Read the rules for choosing a name
This page is an aid to reflection, not a fatwa. For a personal case, ask a person of knowledge.
Writing Batool in each language
- French
- Batoul, Batoule, Batul
- English
- Batool, Batul, Batoul
- Spanish
- Batul, Batoul
- Turkish
- Betül, Betul
- Arabic
- بَتُول
Similar names
See also
- Maryamمَرْيَم Name of the mother of ʿĪsā (Jesus); “the woman devoted to worship” according to the commentators
- Fatimaفَاطِمَة “She who weans”; name of the Prophet’s daughter ﷺ
- Zahraزَهْرَاء “The radiant one, shining bright”; al-Zahraʾ, epithet of Fatima
- Azraعَذْرَاء “Virgin, pure”; al-ʿAdhraʾ, one of the epithets of Maryam