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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on naming a son Lut

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The questioner:
The questioner: There are some who name their son Lut because they want to remind people of the ugliness of the act of sodomy. Is his action correct? That he respects the English language. Yes.

The Shaykh:
This is a strange opinion. He named him Lut after the Prophet, not after the people of Lut. Yes, name him after the name of a Prophet, a pure Prophet. Yes, Lut, Nuh, and Ibrahim are names of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Yes.

The questioner:
I ask Allah for you. Your Eminence, the father, the questioner asks: Is it from the Sunnah, when returning the salam, to add "and Allah's mercy and blessings and His forgiveness"?

The Shaykh:
And Lut (peace be upon him) was named with this name before Allah sent him, or before he was restrained, so Lut believed in him. This was in the land of Iraq before they migrated to the land of the people. His name was originally not in connection with the people of Lut, so do not associate this with that. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [288- 4717] حكم تسمية الابن ب(لوط) لتنفير الناس من هذه الفاحشة - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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