{"id":2218,"date":"2019-10-18T09:49:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T07:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2019-10-18T09:49:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T07:49:42","slug":"making-nikah-with-a-non-muslim-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2218","title":{"rendered":"Making Nikah with a non-Muslim name"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Making Nikah with a non-Muslim name<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. Is it necessary to change a Muslim revert\u2019s non-Muslim name to a Muslim name for a Nikah to be valid?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> Once a person accepts Islam, he\/she should be given a suitable Muslim name.<\/p>\n<p>If however, a person is not given a suitable Muslim name after accepting Islam and a Nikah is performed using a non-Muslim name, the Nikah will still be valid.<\/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>Making Nikah with a non-Muslim name Q. Is it necessary to change a Muslim revert\u2019s non-Muslim name to a Muslim name for a Nikah to be<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":[53,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aqidah","category-nikah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218","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=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2219,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions\/2219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}