Adl ( ar, عدل, ) is an
Arabic word meaning '
justice', and is also one of the
names of God in Islam
Names of God in Islam ( ar, أَسْمَاءُ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلْحُسْنَىٰ , "''Allah's Beautiful Names''") are names attributed to God in Islam by Muslims. While some names are only in the Quran, and others are only in the hadith, th ...
. It is equal to the concept of ''Insaf'' انصاف (lit. sense of justice) in the
Baháʼí Faith.
Adil
Adil (also transliterated as Adel, ar, عادل) is an Arabic masculine given name and surname. Adil is a variation of the name Adel, an Arabic male name that comes from the word Adl, meaning "fairness" and "justice". It is a common name in the M ...
( ar, عادل, ), and
Adeel
Adeel ( ar, عديل) is a Muslim male name in South Asia.
Given name
* Adeel Ahmed (born 1983), Pakistani footballer
* Adeel Ahmed, Pakistani politician
* Adeel Akhtar (born 1980), English actor
* Adeel Chaudhry (born 1988), Pakistani-Canadian ...
( ar, عديل, ) are male names derived from ʻadl and are common throughout the
Muslim
Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...
world.
In Islamic jurisprudence
Adl, as used by early theorists of Islamic jurisprudence, referred to an aspect of an individual's character.
[Abu al-Hassan al-Mawardi, transl. by Wafaa H. Wahba. ''The Ordinances of Government''. Garnet Publishing Limited, 2000.] This aspect is best translated as probity.
Although Adl, as used by many religious scholars today, is loosely used as meaning solely justice, one must look more closely at how and why religious scholars choose to use this word.
In a hadith, Islamic prophet
Muhammad said that, the meaning of ''
wasat'' (moderation) is adl (justice).
In Islamic theology
Adl is another word for divine justice in Islam. The conception of this term varies between Shias and Sunnis. For Shias, divine justice is one of the Usul ad-Din. Shias tend to believe that God is rationally just, that men inherently know the difference between good and evil, and that we have complete free will. Sunnis, in contrast, believe that God is necessarily just, that revelation, the Qur'an, is the only way to know good and evil, and that men are afforded some volition within predestination.
Family name
The origin of the modern Persian family name
Adl
Adl ( ar, عدل, ) is an Arabic word meaning 'justice', and is also one of the names of God in Islam. It is equal to the concept of ''Insaf'' انصاف (lit. sense of justice) in the Baháʼí Faith.
Adil ( ar, عادل, ), and Adeel ( ar, ...
is from the titles of nobility given to Iranian jurists at the end of the 19th century, that were related by family ties. Notably, these jurists included
Mirza Husain Noori Tabarsi
Mirza Husain Noori Tabarsi ( fa, میرزا حسین نوری طبرسی, ar, الميرزا حسين النوري الطبرسي) (1838 - 1902) popularly known as Muhaddis Noori / Al-Mohaddith Al-Noori, was a Shi'a Islamic Scholar and Shi'a Renai ...
, also known as "Hossein Shah", whose title was ''ʻAdl al-Mulk'' "Justice of the Kingdom", Sayyid Mirza Ebrahim Khalil, whose title was ''Rukn al-Idalah'' "Pillar of Justice", and Mirza Mostafa Khan Adl, whose title was ''Mansur al-Saltanah'' "Victorious of the Empire".
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How to Pronounce ʻAdl
Arabic words and phrases
Islamic terminology
Names of God in Islam