Women taking their husbands name...
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alf2
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My mother told me that too, she's been married 5 times.
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lilmuslimah
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salam all.
I've done my research on this topic its seems scholars are undecided on the matter some are claiming that its forbidden to change your lineage as that would mean claiming to be from the somebody else other then your father which is forbidden in islam others say that it is down to personal choice, during my research into this matter i managed to trace down the history of why women change there surnames upon marriage and my research took me back to christianity and i discovered that women would change thier names upon marriage because married women were now there husbands property!
personally i wouldn't change my surname its your identity at the end of the day!! if pushed i would consider taking my husbands name as a middle name but no more!!!
good luck sis!!! do let us know ur choice!!!!!!!!!!xx
I've done my research on this topic its seems scholars are undecided on the matter some are claiming that its forbidden to change your lineage as that would mean claiming to be from the somebody else other then your father which is forbidden in islam others say that it is down to personal choice, during my research into this matter i managed to trace down the history of why women change there surnames upon marriage and my research took me back to christianity and i discovered that women would change thier names upon marriage because married women were now there husbands property!
personally i wouldn't change my surname its your identity at the end of the day!! if pushed i would consider taking my husbands name as a middle name but no more!!!
good luck sis!!! do let us know ur choice!!!!!!!!!!xx
Ashima33
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I love my last name. I always said that when I got married I would keep my it. And I still want to, unless I marry someone with a non-western last name. I will get it hyphenated, but still go by just my maiden name. I plan to do this because I have heard of some muslim women having trouble when traveling in airports and such with a husband with with a different name than theirs.
I should have kept my maiden name. No one can pronounce my name now. (went from a name with 6 letters to 10... and it's ALWAYS mispronounced lol). At our wedding, the man performing the ceremony kept stumbling and my husband eventually turned to the audience and said "you know who we are". lol 
It is haraam for a wife to take her husband’s name
With regard to a child born out of wedlock, he should be given his mother’s name and cannot be given the name of the adulterer. (For more information, see Question #1942 and 284).
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Allahu Knows Best, I don't know if you have to change your name but as you were a Non-Muslim before then I guess it's allowed for you to have his last name even if you have reverted to Islam because you weren't Muslim before.
It is not permitted for anyone to claim to belong to anyone other than his father. Imitating the kuffaar by dropping the wife’s surname and giving her the husband’s name is haraam; it is also a form of falsehood, and humiliation of the woman. Anyone who has done this must repent to Allaah and put it right by going back to her father’s name.
With regard to a child born out of wedlock, he should be given his mother’s name and cannot be given the name of the adulterer. (For more information, see Question #1942 and 284).
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Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid
Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid
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Allahu Knows Best, I don't know if you have to change your name but as you were a Non-Muslim before then I guess it's allowed for you to have his last name even if you have reverted to Islam because you weren't Muslim before.