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    Question ID: 168586Country: India

    Title: Correct spelling of Names

    Question: Can we keep these names with the following spelling? And please mark if any of these names is not permissible for a Muslim boy or girl and please hazrat do mention if we have to do taubah for being called by a name that is not permissible to have. Names: Taiba, Kausar, Ifrah, Shahnaz, Illiyen, Qurra, Laiya, Aaqib, Dehya.

    Answer ID: 168586

    Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !

    (Fatwa: 634/559/H=06/1440)

     

    There is no harm in keeping the name Taiba, Kausar, Shahnaz, Aqib, Qurra, Dihya. Don’t keep the name Ifrah, Illiyen, Laiya. If you have kept then change it. Just make firm intention not to keep in future. It is not necessary to do regular taubah for the same.

    Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best

    Darul Ifta,

    Darul Uloom Deoband, India