What is the ruling on changing the name of a sick girl so that she recovers from her illness?
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, a person’s daughter was afflicted with an illness that the doctors are almost unable to cure, and someone advised him to change this girl’s name, saying that she would recover, by the permission of Allah, because of this matter. What is the ruling on that?
Answer:
There is no basis for this name; it has no connection to the illness. However, he should seek help from Allah, increase in the remembrance of Allah, and perform the prescribed ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation). If she has a treatment with the doctors, he should also treat her with the doctors and seek help through supplication. Allah is near and responsive. Allah did not send down a disease without sending down a cure for it. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, a person’s daughter was afflicted with an illness that the doctors are almost unable to cure, and someone advised him to change this girl’s name, saying that she would recover, by the permission of Allah, because of this matter. What is the ruling on that?
Answer:
There is no basis for this name; it has no connection to the illness. However, he should seek help from Allah, increase in the remembrance of Allah, and perform the prescribed ruqyah (healing by Qur'anic recitation). If she has a treatment with the doctors, he should also treat her with the doctors and seek help through supplication. Allah is near and responsive. Allah did not send down a disease without sending down a cure for it. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [836 -858] ما حكم تغيير اسم الطفلة المريضة لكي تتعافى من مرضها؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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