meaningful Muslim Names (An Old and Rare Book)

Islam and its scriptures have unity of faith and treat Muslims all over the world as one community and one nation, (MUSLIM UMMAH). And every Muslim identifies the other by a name. This book emphasises and aims at giving this universality more strength by suggesting Muslim names which are identical to Islamic cultural elements not only in soundings but also in meanings.

The names given herein the book are in Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Urdu. There are more than 2500 meaningful and beautiful names to choose from. Some Eminent 20th Century Indian Muslims Names have also been added to give wider choice.

As the title, "Meaningful Muslim Names" suggests, the user of this book may find a wide variety of popular and new names. For this, the book has been compiled after having looked into various compilations and best efforts have been made to add improvements in every aspect. Hence, one can choose from good names with comprehensive meanings according to his interests and liking.

It has been realized by the Psychologists through psycho-analysis, that the names of the persons have effects on ones's personality and life The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in his lifetime revealed to his followers, that children be given good and meaningful names. Therefore, we have instances in Hadith where Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) changed the names of the people likewise.

Apart from being a mark of his personality, the meaningful names also indicate persons religion. So, the Muslim names should not only be meaningful to Muslim cultural elements but also be sounding in such a manner that by mere mention of the name one should be able to grasp the religion (Islam).

The followers of Islam all over the world speak different languages. Often their names are affected by the language they speak For example, AHMED becomes AHMEDOV and ISLAM becomes ISLAMOV in Central Asian Countries but the basic meaning does not change. In the Indo-Pak Sub-Continent, the middle-East and Turkey, the names in use currently are Arabic, Persian, Turkish or Urdu origin. But the names included herewith, would be of great source to the people who are living in English Speaking Countries to find Muslim names easily spellable and pronounciable in English. The care has been taken in this book to give the most common and popular meanings to the names so as to give wider choice to the user. Additions of fathers name or clan is a matter of personal liking and tradition. But care must be taken for the meanings of the names in such cases.

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