The word · The heart
السَّكِينَة
Sakinah
A stillness Allah sends down into the heart, usually at the moment it is least expected.
Also written · Sakina · Sakeena · Sekine · Sakinah in the heart · Tumaninah · Itminan · Tranquillity · Tranquility · Inner peace · Calm from Allah · Serenity · Peace of heart
The meaning
What Sakinah means in Islam
The Qur'an says He sent down tranquillity into the hearts of the believers (Qur'an 48:4), and describes it arriving in the cave when the Prophet peace be upon him told Abu Bakr not to grieve (Qur'an 9:40). It is spoken of as given rather than produced. It is not the same as being calm by temperament, and its absence in a hard moment is not a sign that a person has been abandoned.
Evidence · Qur’an · Stated directly in the Qur’an
Read beside it
Rooms that name it
Words that sit beside it
- DhikrRemembrance of Allah, in set phrases and in the wider habit of not forgetting Him.الذِّكْر
- TawakkulRelying on Allah for the outcome while still doing the work that leads to it.التَّوَكُّل
- QalbThe heart: in the Qur'an the seat of understanding and intention, not the organ alone.القَلْب
- Sharh al-SadrThe opening of the chest: the settled ease Allah gives when a person is guided toward something.شَرْحُ الصَّدْر
More from The heart
- 'AfwPardon: dropping a wrong you are owed, without the other person having to earn it.العَفْو
- GhaflahHeedlessness: not the denial of the truth, but the habit of never getting round to it.الغَفْلَة
- IstiqamahStaying straight: keeping to the path steadily, over years, without dramatic swings.الاسْتِقَامَة
- MujahadahThe struggle against your own self: making yourself do the right thing when you do not want to.المُجَاهَدَة
- RuqyaReciting Qur'an and prophetic supplications over a sick or afflicted person as treatment.الرُّقْيَة
- TafakkurDeliberate reflection on creation and on your own life, treated as an act of worship.التَّفَكُّر