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Is Diyya a boy’s name or girl’s name?

Answered as per Hanafi Fiqh by IslamicSolutions.org

Question:

 Is Diyya a boy’s name or girl’s name?

Answer:

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

As-salāmu `alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.

 The name Diyya is appropriate.

 Diyya means “an earthen lamp” [i]

  

And Allah knows best.

Mufti Saeed Ahmed Golaub

Islamic Solutions

Jamaica

[i] Urdu Dictionary pg. 375. – Ferozsons (Pvt) LTD.

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This answer was collected from IslamicSolutions.org, which is operated by Mufti Saeed Ahmed Golaub from Jamaica. He’s a student of Mufti Ebrahim Desai (rah) from South Africa.