Question:
Assalamu’ Alaikum.
Please be informed that inshaAllah, we will be blessed with our 1st baby boy by February 16th, 2011.
We need to be prepared for our baby’s name and we like to be advised by you. We’ve decided/discussed on a couple of names and ended up with the following name: “Nayeel Muhaimin Rahman”.
Nayeel: Winner, Acquirer
Muhaimin: One of the names of Allah
Rahman: One of the names of Allah,
We were thinking to have a short First Name and would prefer to have last name as RAHMAN as all our brothers and nephews’ last name is the same.
Please advise us if we can go for the name “Nayeel Muhaimin Rahman” or we’ve to tweak something or something that you consider would be a better option for us.
Take care.
Answer:
wa `alaykum salam,
May Allah Most High bless you here and hereafter with His gifts and grant good health and righteousness to your child.
The best names are those that denote servanthood or reduplicate the Names of Prophets.
Since you want the last name to be Rahman which is a name that belongs exclusively to Allah, the best first name would be a construct with that last name that denotes servanthood such as Sajid al-Rahman, and since you want a three-part name a good kunya would be Muhyiddin, i.e. the full name would be Muhyiddin Sajid Rahman.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
