Iqra

Learn the Qur’an, one ayah at a time.

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الْمُؤْمِنُ

Al Mu'min

The inspirer of faith

Scroll on for a reflection, and where you’ll meet it

Reflection

One root gives three words at once: amn, safety; amāna, a trust placed in someone’s hands; and īmān, belief. Arabic hears believing as a kind of entrusting, and al-Muʾmin is read as the one who gives security — the same letters as the amān a frightened person asks for.

These letters are everywhere in the Qur’an, but almost always of people: the believers. With the article, naming Allah, the app’s check finds the form once — 59:23, between as-Salām and al-Muhaymin. A name can be rare in the text and constant in the mouth, and this one is both.

Where you’ll meet it

A few of the ayat where this name’s written form appears.