{"id":6108,"date":"2024-07-10T07:42:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/naming-chilrden-after-the-messengers\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T07:42:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:42:25","slug":"naming-chilrden-after-the-messengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/naming-chilrden-after-the-messengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Naming Chilrden After The Messengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>I live in Canada and have named my younger son Noah: same as  Nuh or Nooh. To me it gives the same meaning regardless. My intention  is to name him after the Prophet Noah. Please advise if that is ok to  name him in English version as Noah for I live in Canada. When people  ask me why I named him Noah and I gladly explain that its the same  Prophet Noah that Islam belief in.<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>We believe that it is perfectly allowable to  name the children after the Messengers. The name changes according to  linguistic practice of people and foreign names are no more pronounced  the way they are pronounced by the native people. Therefore, there is no  problem in calling him Noah and not Nooh. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-01-12<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6108\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in Canada and have named my younger son Noah: same as  Nuh or Nooh. To me it gives the same meaning regardless. My intention  is to name him after the Prophet Noah. Please advise if that is ok to  name him in English version as Noah for I live in Canada. When people  ask me why I named him Noah and I gladly explain that its the same  Prophet Noah that Islam belief in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1163],"tags":[1741,1697,1415,1800],"class_list":["post-6108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-islamic-names","tag-name","tag-naming-children","tag-noah"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Naming Chilrden After The Messengers - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/naming-chilrden-after-the-messengers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Naming Chilrden After The Messengers - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I live in Canada and have named my younger son Noah: same as Nuh or Nooh. 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