Halim

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Halim (adj. Arabic حليم):

1) in Islam, al-Halim is one of the 99 names of God

2) a virtue that can be translated as gentle, forbearing, mild, patient, understanding, indulgent, slow to anger—"what we call a civilized man" [1]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Golziher, Ignaz, Muslim Studies, ed. S.M. Stern (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1967), pp. 202–203, as cited in Stetkevych, Jaroslav, Muhammad and the Golden Bough: Deconstructing Arabian Myth (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996), p. 14.
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