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peacemaker
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Posted: 05 February 2006 at 10:53am |
Salam , I agree with both brothers AhmadJoyia and shams Zaman. Peace |
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Then which of the favours of your Lord will ye deny?
Qur'an 55:13 |
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Shams Zaman
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I absolutely agree with Brother Ahmed Joyia!
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CrescentStar67
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Interesting thread,thanks for posting it and the replies..I was wonderin the same things.. My paternal fathers real last names means lion,and since I dont have his last name I was wanting to use the Arabic for Lion. Is there an Arabic name for Jeremiah? |
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AhmadJoyia
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I was wondering why even cristy or christine or similar name originating from "Christ" be objectionable where it means "the Massaiah" in arabic or "the liberator or savior" in english. This was the title for a human being (as Muslims believe) mentioned in Quran, therefore can be acquired by others as well without much reservations among Muslims, at least. Now, as far as keeping names that are specifically attributed to Allah, such as Khaliq, Wahid, Ahad etc is concerned, usually people add another qualifier name e.g. Abdul (meaning slave of) with it to depict the right association as a humble human being. Therefore, the complete name becomes Abdul Khaliq (slave of creator) or Abdul Wahid (slave of the One), etc. Hence this name "Abdul Wahid" is not two names but a single name and none of the two can be seperated and taken as literally the first, middle, or last name. However, in practice, people forget about the "first half" of the name i.e. Abdul and simply call him with the "second half" of the name as a convenience , which ofcourse is not appropriate. I have seen this mal-practise mostly in non-Arabic Muslim countries as some of my Arabic speaking brothers were very particular in calling their children with complete names. |
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Angela
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Thank you Mushen.
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In turkey is alot name with Melek, that means Angel... Maybe the meaning of the name is important..Some1 who has name they is only from a holly person or like this, in another Religion besides Islam. There is names like cristian (for male) or cristine (for female).They could be changed.. Allahu Aleem... |
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Thanks you so much Shams, Alwardah. I love to find the truth behind what practices are Islam and what are cultural. The name thing always baffled me. |
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