{"id":5805,"date":"2017-04-23T18:04:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T22:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.co\/?p=5805"},"modified":"2017-04-23T18:04:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T22:04:36","slug":"changing-names-as-a-remedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=5805","title":{"rendered":"Changing Names as a Remedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When a man or woman becomes sick, the Peer Sahib says that his or her name is very bad, they will be cured by changing their names. Ignorant people believe this and change their names. Is this established or is it shirk?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Changing names, which are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">contrary<\/span> to Shariah, has been established in the noble Hadith. Changing names, which are in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">accordance<\/span> to Shariah, as a remedy for bodily sicknesses is <strong>not<\/strong> established.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And Allah Ta\u2019ala knows best.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(Faqeehul Ummah Mufti) Mahmood (Gangohi, May Allah have mercy on him) Darul Uloom Deoband <\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Fatawa Mahmudiyah Vol.29 Pg.234<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: When a man or woman becomes sick, the Peer Sahib says that his or her name is very bad, they will be cured by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[150,160],"class_list":["post-5805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-faqeehul-ummah","tag-fatawa-mahmudiyah","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}