Naming Children
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What is the ruling on naming a newborn "Adhan," and is it an inappropriate name due to what might be attributed to it of human actions or for calling it by names that are unfitting?
Is a father punished through his children—such as by their disobedience or other means—due to past sins and transgressions, like adultery, even if he has repented and is currently performing good deeds, and what can be done to avoid a father being tested through his children?
What is the ruling on naming a newborn "Shahid" or "Uzair"?
Does the ruling on obeying one's mother become obligatory if she stipulates the performance of a permissible act in exchange for obedience in another permissible act, or if she refrains from going out or attending to her needs due to her son's non-compliance with her request?
What is the ruling on naming a newborn girl "Nurit"?
What is the ruling on naming a newborn "Peri," which means in Persian "a beautiful woman resembling an angel," and in English "berry" or "grape"?
Does the sister's son become a foster brother to the questioner's children if he (the sister's son) drank a single sip of his (the questioner's) wife's milk unintentionally?
What is the correct action to take regarding insane people who are bothered by boys, and thus curse Allah and the religion, and utter profanities and insults, knowing that it is impermissible to kill them?
What is the ruling on naming a newborn girl "Aysel," which is of Turkish origin and means "moonlight" or "moon face"?
Is it permissible for the husband to seek divorce due to his wife constantly raising her voice at him and his desire not to have children with her again as a result of his hatred for her?
Is it permissible for a father to designate a portion of his property to one of his children in exchange for that child relinquishing his share of the remaining inheritance, and do the other heirs have the right to annul this agreement after the father's death, and if the agreement is permissible, does the son have the right to claim his legal share despite the documented commitment?
Is it forbidden for children to disobey parents who mistreated their children? Is it permissible to wish death upon them? Does the principle of "as you judge, so you will be judged" apply to wishing death upon a father due to his mistreatment and neglect of his children?
Is it permissible to sell the heirs' only house despite the mother's refusal, and what is the ruling of Sharia on this if the children are in dire need of money?
Is it permissible for a father to grant his male child an apartment, registering it in his name alone, without the rest of his female siblings, and is he required to consult them in that regard?
Is the husband sinful for preventing his wife, whom he divorced due to her betrayal, from seeing her children, in order to protect the children from her environment?
Is what the mother did—discriminating among her children in giving, and her financial dealings with her absent son, such as informing him of unreal prices for apartments or maintenance expenses, and giving him a small annual amount, then the brother demanding the difference in the price of the apartment he was supposed to own or the money he claims is rightfully his from her—permissible in Islamic law? Does this entail sin for the mother or the favored son? And what is the ruling on the dutiful, low-income son taking from his mother?
Is a father considered deceitful towards his mother and disobedient to her if he names his daughter with a modern name in official documents while his family calls her by his mother's name, without the mother's knowledge? And is naming a newborn child the right of the father or the mother, according to Sharia?
Is it permissible to divide an inheritance of gold assets equally between a son and a daughter in a will, and if not, what is the second option? Is it permissible for a mother to use the gold she gifted to her young children who are under her guardianship? What is the available option for writing a will to divide gold among children while they are young?
Is it permissible for a mother to transfer a plot of land to her son, and is it permissible for her to give him money in compensation for what she spent on his siblings, given that some of the money the son sent to her was for savings, awaiting its return, and other amounts were not expected to be returned?
Is it obligatory to change the name "Taleen" for a newborn, especially after it was linked to jinn in a dream and its naming was prohibited in Saudi Arabia, and given that the wife was affected by a previous experience with another child who recovered after changing her name, which was also associated with jinn?
Am I entitled to deny my son's paternity, remove my name from his birth certificate, and divorce my wife, after being informed by the doctor that I am sterile and unable to have children?
Is it permissible to name a newborn girl "Bayan" with the desire for the name to be religious?
What is the response to one who denies the hadith: "Attach the fara'id (allotted shares) to their rightful recipients..." claiming it contradicts the Quran, and holds that His saying, may He be exalted: "And if there are women, more than two, then for them is two-thirds of what he left" includes the male, and that the matter of 'asabah (agnatic heirs) contradicts the Quran, basing this on the comprehensiveness of the word "walad" (child/offspring) for both male and female in His saying, may He be exalted: "And for his parents, each one of them a sixth of what he left, if he has walad (children)"?
What is the share of the wife, five daughters, and one son from an inheritance amounting to 35,000,000 after the husband's death?