The Ruling on Adopting Newly Invented Names and Persian Names
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The questioner:
Yes. These days, newly invented names, strange names like "May" and the like, is it said that they have moved from the praiseworthy to the obligatory if they abandoned the names that...?
The Shaykh:
In any case, if there is no harm in them and no dispute, or if there is no dispute, if suitable names are available, there is no harm in them if there is no dispute. "May" is one of the names of the ancient Arabs, "May" and its like, old names. But a person should seek out the name that is well-known among people, famous among people, so that it is safer and further from falling into something inappropriate. And names have no price. He starts, praise be to Allah, he chooses, he starts with a price. Yes.
The questioner:
Likewise, Persian names, Persian names like "Shahab" and the like.
The Shaykh:
The point is, if there is imitating the disbelievers, he is not named with the names of the disbelievers, the ones famous among them, the ones famous among the disbelievers, he does not take such a name, he takes the names of Muslims, or he is named with the names of Muslims.
Yes. These days, newly invented names, strange names like "May" and the like, is it said that they have moved from the praiseworthy to the obligatory if they abandoned the names that...?
The Shaykh:
In any case, if there is no harm in them and no dispute, or if there is no dispute, if suitable names are available, there is no harm in them if there is no dispute. "May" is one of the names of the ancient Arabs, "May" and its like, old names. But a person should seek out the name that is well-known among people, famous among people, so that it is safer and further from falling into something inappropriate. And names have no price. He starts, praise be to Allah, he chooses, he starts with a price. Yes.
The questioner:
Likewise, Persian names, Persian names like "Shahab" and the like.
The Shaykh:
The point is, if there is imitating the disbelievers, he is not named with the names of the disbelievers, the ones famous among them, the ones famous among the disbelievers, he does not take such a name, he takes the names of Muslims, or he is named with the names of Muslims.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 736- حكم التسمي بالأسماء المستحدثة والأسماء الفارسية - فوائد شرح كتاب الوابل الصيب - ابن باز — youtube.com
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