Giving the name Yasin

Question

Question: My name is Muhammad Yasin. The respected Mawlawi Ahmad Raza Khan, in the first part of “Ahkam-i Shari‘at” (“The Rulings of the Shari‘a”), wrote that giving the name Yasin is forbidden. The proof he put forward is that reading something whose meaning is unknown is not permissible, and likewise giving a name whose meaning is unknown is not permissible.

Answer

For a person who does not know the meaning of a word, that word is one of unknown meaning to him; but it is not necessary that it also be of unknown meaning in reality (fi nafs al-amr), whether according to some language or according to usage and custom (‘urf). The remedy for not knowing is asking: [ar]فَسْـَٔلُوٓا۟ أَهْلَ ٱلذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ[/ar] “…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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