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Names Given To New Born Children
Recently a family member named her son Mikhail but was told by her in laws that this was the name of an angel and it was “makrooh” to keep an angel’s name. Can anybody guide me about this. Thank you
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Names Given To New Born Children
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Angels are just another creation of the same Creator as humans. Just because we know an angel with the name Mikhail doesn’t mean that there are no angels with names like Zaid and Bakr, which are common Muslim names.
The key thing to understand with respect to naming children is that the names should be decent, and should not have any aspect of shirk in them. That’s all. There’s no restriction in my knowledge in naming children with names of angels.
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Many thanks. Much appreciated
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Answer:
By Tariq Mahmood Hashmi
The Islamic Shariah has not forbidden naming our children after the names of angels. Most famous names of the angels like Jibrael, Mikael are given by the Almighty himself. We know that Christians name their children after angels for example ‘Michael’ is the Anglicized form of Mikael.
Though the Holy Quran may have used masculine gender for angels, yet it does not necessitate that angels have a masculine gender. The available data in the basic religious sources does not provide us any information in this regard. However, we can not say that naming a child after angels has anything to do with our concept of their gender. We can not object to anybody being named after angels unless they knowingly attach any incorrect belief with the practice. In fact, there is clear evidence that, though not very common, Muslims have given such names to their children. The names Jibrael (1) and Mikael (2) are also found in the names of narrators of Hadith.
(1). See, for instance, Tehzeeb al-Tehzeeb, volume 12, pg 26.
(2). See, for instance, ‘Lisaan al-Meezaan’, volume 6, pg 140.
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