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Haya

حياءIn Arabic

Meaning
Modesty; a natural reserve before doing wrong
About the name
Haya, modesty, is named in Sahih al-Bukhari (no. 9) among the branches of faith, which the hadith says number more than sixty.
For
A girl
Origin
Arabic
Other spellings
Hayaa

Islamic naming guidance

  • Permissible

Draft: not yet reviewed by a scholar. This is not a fatwa.

Good meaning, nothing against it in the sources

Confidence: high

Sources

No source is recorded for this ruling yet.

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