Adding husband name after marriage
What Islam says about adding husband name after marriage Compiled by: Engineer Nazir Malik Sargodha Islam is the most perfect religion in the world. One of the queries we will discuss regarding women changing their name after marriage in the lights of Islam. It is a common act seen across many cultures that women change their surname from father’s to their husband’s surname after marriage. It is widely practiced throughout the world and Muslims have also adopted it. It is not important for a woman to take her husband’s name or his family name because that is attributing oneself to someone other than one’s father. It is pertinent to note that even the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)’s wives never linked their name to the Prophet. Their names were connected to their fathers with the help of ‘binte’. It is not compulsory to change the woman’s name after she is married, a wife can change her name after marriage if she wants to. In the day o...