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Does a wife have the right to refuse to name her daughter Aisha due to security concerns about arrest or killing in a country where Sunnis are oppressed, and is she permitted to tell her husband that she will not forgive him if they are harmed because of this name?

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Naming is the father's right in case of dispute, as Almighty Allah says: "Call them by [the names of] their fathers; it is more just in the sight of Allah." However, the father should involve the mother in the naming, and if the name causes harm, it must be avoided, based on the hadith: "There should be neither harming nor reciprocating harm."

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