Sorry your explanation does not support you. It is narrations of additional information that is simply not stated in the Quran. People had their own way to explain stuff, but the intent was less about name and more about familial, financial factors that would be managed that way.
The argument of ‘how’ you perform salah is bogus, because by that anything that is not stated can be appended to anything. I don’t buy it.
As far as proof of the statement of the imam, it was a personal direct conversation explaining the situation and asking for advise. I have no hyperlinks.
The ayat simply suggests that it is preferable to use the fathers name, but if it is not known, then the kid is your brother in faith and that god is merciful and knows your intentions. Ergo., if you know the name it’s better but if you don’t, then god knows your intentions and is merciful ie do your best but if you don’t have the info, you are not on the hook for anything.
Naming is not anywhere in there. So regardless of which mufti decides to invent it, I reject it.
The logic is very simple and it is that you can not claim an adopted child as your biological child, and contrary tro popular beliefs that naming and all that jazz is to prevent some chances of incest, it is to protect the rights of the child. So it prevents a person from adopting an orphan and taking over his assets because he has rights to it since he is the father. First, It’s the rights of the orphans being protected, naming was one identifier back then, now there are records, and that takes care of it. The other aspects of family opposition to adopt due to some automatic share in inheritance is also to encourage adoption and decrease opposition by spouses or children.
An adopted child has many struggles other kids don’t, identity, feeling of belonging, just being some major ones. There is no rational reason to stamp a child with the label of having an unknown father to add to the kid’s challenges. God is Rehman and Raheem, and if it is better for the child’s emotional wellbeing, then that is what is going to take place and I refer to the second part of the ayat that plainly says, Allah knows your intentions and is merciful.
I am all for tafseer and muftis but if they simply can’t get the intention then that can not be helped. Allah knows intentions and is merciful..as stated plainly in Quran without the need for someone to add additional info and their interpretations.
Intent is critical, it’s a simple religion. It’s our professional religion brokers that have made it complex for their own self serving interests just like those of other faiths.
It’s simple, adopt a child, protect his interests, don’t take what’s his, don’t face opposition to adopt from those who are worried about their financial interests in your wealth, understand the ability for that child to be married in your family and vice versa. Nothing too complicated about it. But 1400 years later we have to invent rulings like naming a child Abdullah
The entire basis of financial and familial requirements can be adhered to without worrying about naming. Now this may be a challenge in Pakistan where majority of adoptions are new born kids because it is never publicized that they are adopted, and personally I don’t even have an issue with that because the society there would never be kind and fair to that child overall. In that case, I say hide it, protect the child.
