Islamic Boy's Name

[Boulders]

Am liking Zakir, Zak for short. Do you think that it ok to shorten the name?

Any opinions on the name or suggestions of others that are suitable as a western cross-over name?

sorry for hijack too....in ex h's village (muslim), they have saints, and the saints have a house. But I think this is a local tradition, left over from the long ago days of christianity. The saints looked after the village, and nobody wanted to get rid of them after they converted to islam, so the saints stayed put.

Sorry cote the actual figure I was thinking of was 124000 not 147000 however this figure is not mentioned in the quran I think it is from a hadith but I donot remember exactly which one.

That would be the number of messengers ("rasul") from Allah, not prophets ("nabi").

You are right cote, my mistake.
OP are you any closer to chosing a name??

Well Alireza's Dad I think said Ali and Reza were the first and ??seventh saint. They are Shia Muslims btw.

hello/ as salaam wa alaykum

my fave islamic names for boys are as follows

zubayr (dont know if i spelled that right)

umar

khalid

zakariah

musa

zakir is lovely also my friend has a wee boy called zakariah she calls him zack zuck for short lol am sure theres nothing wrong with zak lol

would also like to comment that shia muslims and shia muslims are on completly different religions
am a sunnah muslim we have no saints etc only the prophets and messengers of Allah 25 are mentioned byname in the quran

ilyas is also a nice name

take care
bridget

We have several Danyals locally. Boys names tend to get shortened, so Zak/Zakir would work too.

isnt there a version off sam some were am noy sure but new of a little boy called samiren not sure which faith it is tho but i liked it .

Snowmuch - Repeat after me:

There Are No Saints In Islam.

Ali and Reza were IMAMs. Imam does not mean "saint". Alireza's father is wrong, or perhaps just couldn't be bothered to explain it to you properly.

I know an Isaam, which is pronounced ee-sam. it's a good one as people too thick insular to grasp ee-sam can just say sam.

Love Zakir/Zak. That's a really great one.

Friends recently named their boy "Sami" which crosses over nicely imho.

How about Zaki? You can still shorten it to Zak.

I know a guy called Islam it really suits him he is egyptian also know a Zak, Karim and Sam they are brothers i think they are lovely names.

Well, sorry, Cote, but I am only going by what Alireza's dad (an Iranian Shia Muslim) told me!

Zakir means rememberance or something similar, it's my dads name and he's always been called Zak by everyone.

Oh lots of muslim people will say muslims believe in saints, I think people who were considered holy are losely described as saints. Those called who earn the name wali are I suppose described as satins.

Muslims beleive in all the old testament prophets(pbut), we also bleievei n John the Baptiste as a prophet Sam, Saul I actually love the arabic equivelant of Saul.....

Anyway yes I rather like Zakir, and have heard it shortened to Zak.

I love samir

isreal ,(izzy) for short not sure were it comes from

Thank you for your replies. The OH has now decided that he does not like Zakir so we are having a re-think. We already have a DS called Adam.

I have a Zaki

fuzzywuzzy- im glad its not just me hearing all these people refer to people as saints!!!

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