{"id":1003,"date":"2019-06-11T18:33:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T16:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2019-06-11T18:33:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T16:33:35","slug":"changing-a-reverts-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"Changing a reverts name"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Changing a reverts name<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Q. Salmz mufti is it a necessity\u00a0to change your name when you embrace Islam please explain<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> A person\u2019s name bespeaks his\/her religion. Therefore, it is vital for a revert to Islam to take an Islamic name to identify himself\/herself with Islam. To keep such names which suggest adherence to any culture and creed other than Islam, is not permissible. However, it is not prohibited to keep a non-Arabic name, which does not have a bad meaning or anything un-Islamic about it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing a reverts name Q. Salmz mufti is it a necessity\u00a0to change your name when you embrace Islam please explain A. A person\u2019s name bespeaks his\/her<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aqidah","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}