What is the ruling on naming a girl Hiyam?
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A girl should not be named Hiyam, because its meaning is: extreme thirst, and a disease that afflicts camels causing them to wander aimlessly in the land without grazing, and it also denotes madness from passionate love. Scholars have explicitly stated the dislike of naming with it.
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