Is it permissible to name a person with one of the names of Allah or one of His attributes?
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The questioner : Shaykh, if you please, I understood that it is not permissible for a person to be named with one of the names of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) or one of His attributes. Is this statement correct?
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : I understood that it is not permissible to name a person with one of the names of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) or with one of His attributes?
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Okay, the saying of Allah (Mighty and Majestic):[Yusuf 12:51], or [Yusuf 12:50]. Here, did Allah (Mighty and Majestic) name the wife of al-Aziz?
The Shaykh: May Allah guide you.
The questioner: Go ahead.
The Shaykh : It is a story. Al-Aziz was a disbeliever who does not make lawful or forbid. What is built upon this?
The questioner : Based on an old fatwa that our Lord named Himself al-Aziz.
The Shaykh : May Allah guide you, may Allah guide you. Why did you return to the fatwa and not the verse? We are talking about the verse. What did you understand from the verse, that it is permissible for one to name a person al-Aziz? He is talking about the disbeliever and the wife of the disbeliever. What is in that?
The student : ...[An-Nazi'at 79:24] .
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Okay, for example, what about[As-Saffat 37:101] or 'Alim?
The Shaykh : This is an attribute. May Allah guide you. We said that it is permissible to say "a generous man," but it is not permissible to say: "Generous, O Generous." Have you not heard this?
The questioner : It is permissible to describe him as generous, but we do not name him that.
The Shaykh : May Allah guide you. I asked you, answer, people! May Allah guide you? Answer. Did you hear me? I am saying: It is permissible to say "a generous man," but it is not permissible to name a person Karim and call him "O Karim"?
The questioner : Yes, I heard that.
The Shaykh : Okay, now how do you ask this question whose answer you have already heard previously?!
The student : The attribute is not the name.
The questioner : Shaykh, if a person wants to slaughter an animal and slaughters it but forgets to mention the name of Allah, is it permissible to eat its meat?
The Shaykh : ... so that I can hear you, because the air... your voice is close to you and far from me. Now I have closed the window. Repeat the question.
The questioner : If a person wants to slaughter an animal and slaughters it but forgets to mention the name, is it permissible to eat its meat?
The Shaykh : ...
The questioner : Thank you.
The student : You mentioned, my Shaykh, the limit of chastity, which is zina, as if you mentioned this.
Another student : In the law before ours.
The Shaykh : How?
The student : I say that the distinction raised by thatThe questioner : when he asked regarding the law before ours.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student : So you said, I want to confirm that the law before ours is not a law for us except what agrees with our law, is that not so? May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : I understood that it is not permissible to name a person with one of the names of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) or with one of His attributes?
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Okay, the saying of Allah (Mighty and Majestic):
The wife of al-'Azeez said
قَالَتِ امْرَأَتُ الْعَزِيزِAnd the king said, "Bring him to me."
وَقَالَ الْمَلِكُ ائْتُونِي بِهِThe Shaykh: May Allah guide you.
The questioner: Go ahead.
The Shaykh : It is a story. Al-Aziz was a disbeliever who does not make lawful or forbid. What is built upon this?
The questioner : Based on an old fatwa that our Lord named Himself al-Aziz.
The Shaykh : May Allah guide you, may Allah guide you. Why did you return to the fatwa and not the verse? We are talking about the verse. What did you understand from the verse, that it is permissible for one to name a person al-Aziz? He is talking about the disbeliever and the wife of the disbeliever. What is in that?
The student : ...
And said, "I am your most exalted lord."
فَقَالَ أَنَا رَبُّكُمُ الْأَعْلَىThe Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Okay, for example, what about
So We gave him good tidings of a forbearing boy.
فَبَشَّرْنَاهُ بِغُلَامٍ حَلِيمٍThe Shaykh : This is an attribute. May Allah guide you. We said that it is permissible to say "a generous man," but it is not permissible to say: "Generous, O Generous." Have you not heard this?
The questioner : It is permissible to describe him as generous, but we do not name him that.
The Shaykh : May Allah guide you. I asked you, answer, people! May Allah guide you? Answer. Did you hear me? I am saying: It is permissible to say "a generous man," but it is not permissible to name a person Karim and call him "O Karim"?
The questioner : Yes, I heard that.
The Shaykh : Okay, now how do you ask this question whose answer you have already heard previously?!
The student : The attribute is not the name.
The questioner : Shaykh, if a person wants to slaughter an animal and slaughters it but forgets to mention the name of Allah, is it permissible to eat its meat?
The Shaykh : ... so that I can hear you, because the air... your voice is close to you and far from me. Now I have closed the window. Repeat the question.
The questioner : If a person wants to slaughter an animal and slaughters it but forgets to mention the name, is it permissible to eat its meat?
The Shaykh : ...
The questioner : Thank you.
The student : You mentioned, my Shaykh, the limit of chastity, which is zina, as if you mentioned this.
Another student : In the law before ours.
The Shaykh : How?
The student : I say that the distinction raised by thatThe questioner : when he asked regarding the law before ours.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student : So you said, I want to confirm that the law before ours is not a law for us except what agrees with our law, is that not so? May Allah reward you with good.
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