Re: The significance of Arabic names in Islam
Yeah whats the big deal is right, my kids in U.S are GTE-sprint, voicestream, and cingular, while my kids in pakistan are paktel, pakmobile,mobilink,musli-link
Re: The significance of Arabic names in Islam
** ^well imagine when joseph will have kids; he will be OK naming them chris (from christ or from Eisa), or Frank, after all frank means just a frank person - **
1- christ is not the same as isa, but jesus is
2- frank does ot mean a frank person, but is a short form of franklin or francis, which means "Free"
hence an identity diminishes from generation to generation. But hey, these are your kids, and the way one decides to raise them in the West, is one's own personal choice and decision.
There are plenty of countries in the world that have muslims who do not have arabis names, turks, iranians for a start. do they have to have arabic names to maintain an identity, nope.
If it's all about trying to 'fit-in' then it's a naught effort. After all, you may change the name, but never be able to change the color of skin. Then what? They would still be made fun of one way or the other. Why not just teach them to be very proud of their inheritance*- religion and culture. I am sure they will carry themselves just fine
since names have little to do with religion, it becomes more of a cultural issue.
As I noted there are plenty of christian arabs with arab names like Tariq, Faisal, Ashraf etc.
Re: The significance of Arabic names in Islam
it belongs to a sahabi, I am very well aware of that fact, however, the name simply does not work in US, especially if not spelled properly. The issue is not that there is something wrong with the name, but with how it gets pronounced and can be a source of stress for the kid. same goes for the name fakhar.
Now can someone make fun of any name, sure, but the point is to do your kids a favour and not give them such names.
I dont have any issues with people giving their kids arabic or non arabic names, but just be careful,
and especially if your last name is butt, dont name yer kid seema, aladdin, kokab, rubya etc
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If we can have Persian names (like why???) such as Parvez, Parveen etc. then what's wrong with English or anyother language?
I personally would want my childrens names to reflect our identity whether cultural or religious, our surname is a Punjabi one so I'd probably go for Arabic first names but those which are easy on the tongue, after all Arabic is quite a big part of our religious idenitity, it's a Heavenly language for all Muslims not justArabs.
Re: The significance of Arabic names in Islam
Islam emphasises that Muslims should have good names and give good names to their children. It is reported in a hadith that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "You will be called on the Day of Resurrection by your names and the names of your fathers, so have good names." (Reported by Abu Dawud)
As for non-Arab names, Ive heard that there is nothing wrong in using them as names, so long as they bear good meanings in their language
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Well my family likes Pashtun names ..some have very different meanings in Arabic..what do you guys say to that..
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Depends on the pashtun name really Zakk. I know a guy called Ambail and a girl called Gullalay. Poor kids.
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Even turkish have weird enough names.. I know of two muslim females from there with names like 'Tomris' & 'Gunay' and i kno they r not the only ones with weird names .... Being muslims shouldn't they be following arabic names pattern too ?!?!
As far as i can understand... as long as the meanings of the name is nice, we are allowed to keep them.. no ?
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Hmm...its just a matter of identity. Most people will hook up a name with a background. If they see "Sunshine", they'll think White. If they see "Shaneeqwa", they'll think black. If they see "Xeion Hio Lo", they'll think oriental. If they see "Anuradhaparwal", they'll think Hindu.
(Aside from Sunshine, I made up all these names)
Why not make up a new name? That has no meaning to it?
I dunno, I think persian names are nice in sound...I'd prefer to give my children a Persian name. Maybe a traditional village name like "Chandni", but that might get too filmi.
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fakher butt :k:
Re: The significance of Arabic names in Islam
Sobo janeman so good to have you back 
:kisses:
Yea, whats the big deal man. I know of a paki gal called Georgina Alexandra. Do think her mum n dad went overboard…georgina..what were they thinking :yukh:
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This is remarkabally funny, i never looked at these names in this way before u pointed it out.
but at the end of the day like a few people have pointed out its not about religion its more about where u live, and as someone pointed out the early muslims lived in the middle east and their names have been used all over the world now.
And in them days these names were not given to the child at birth but they were titles given to the people for example the prophet (pbuh) was given the title the truthful one. and Usman (my name) stands for generous.
Although i wouldnt hold it against anyone to call their children tinkerbell or sunshine i feel that it is necessary for one to relate to religion,
The prophet (pbuh) said that muslims should not copy nonmuslims. the fact that people are naming their children english names (in my opinion) just represents a foolish attempt to “fit in”
besides the parent should also consider whether the name sounds right or not, if people are worried that fakhar and anas or anis dont sound right i think they must consider the fact that there is a greater possibility of names like sunshine and tinkerbell sounding outrageous.
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Re: The significance of Arabic names in Islam
as per my knowledge, names should have good meanings and it does not matter whether they have to be Arabic. I think I read it somewhere.