Fatwa #2781120 December 2013India
What is the suitability of the names given?
Question
I have kept a name of my daughter as "Maira Zainab", please advise if this is a good name. it is also pronounced as "Mairah, Mayerah, Mayera". and also I am looking to name my daughter as "Numa" also pronounced as "Numah".
Your help and assistance is greatly appreciated to name my daughter appropriately.
My elder daughter's name is "Manha Fathima" I seek your guidance on this name as well.
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.
“Mayerah” or “Ma`irah” ((مَائِرَة either means means “rapid, fast-moving, penetrating”[1] or “bringer or fetcher of food”, “fetcher of food”[2]. The word is also indirectly found in the Glorious Qur`an[3].
“Zainab” was the name of one of the daughters and one of the wives of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
“Numa” (نُعْمَى) means “happiness”, “pleasant”, or “kindness"[4].
“Manha” (مَنْحَى) means a “goal, objective” or “direction, way, path.”
“Fatimah” was the name of one of the daughters of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)[5].
Hence, the names “Mayerah Zainab”, “Numa” and “Manha Fatimah” are suitable.
And Allah Ta’āla Knows Best
Hanif Yusuf Patel
Student Darul Iftaa
UK
Checked and Approved by,
Mufti Ebrahim Desai.
[1] [Al-Quran, 52:9]
[2] [Al-Qur`an, 12: 65]
[3] التسمية باسم يوجد فى كتاب الله تالى جائزة
[Radd al-Muhtar ala ad-Durr al-Mukhtar, 6: 417, H. M. Saeed Company]
[4] [Ajmal al-Asma li Al-banin wa al-banat wa ma`aniha, p. 143]
[5] See: [Sharh az-Zurqani ala al-Mawahim al-Ludniyyah, 4: 316; Zad al-Ma`ad, 1: 100; Imtaa` al-Asmaa`5: 357]
References
- [Ajmal al-Asma li Al-banin wa al-banat wa ma`aniha, p. 143]
- See: [Sharh az-Zurqani ala al-Mawahim al-Ludniyyah, 4: 316; Zad al-Ma`ad, 1: 100; Imtaa` al-Asmaa`5: 357]