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Question No. 3602 10 September 2026 Official answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) verified سطح محتوا: مقدماتی

Is Changing Your Name Based on Abjad Letters and Name Vibrations a Religious Practice?

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Dear questioner, Master Ali Saei
Tracking code: #Q-3602

Dear teacher, I recently heard claims about the vibration of letters: that a person’s name becomes another name when written in Abjad letters, and that, using cosmic information and books by religious scholars such as Shaykh Baha’i, people can determine whether a name is suitable for you.

If you search for “online name vibration” on Google, information based on a person’s identity documents comes up. It may be positive or negative. Some people have also taken courses and charge a fee to identify the names that are supposedly good for you, then suggest that you choose one and change your name. Others tell people there is no need to change their name.

I believe Professor Raefi Pour has said somewhere that knowledge of the Abjad letters belongs to the Fourteen Infallibles.

Do you accept this method of changing one’s name?

It should also be noted that some people have received a reminder in a dream to change their name.

Please advise us.
َّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ

Subject category: Critique of Doubts

The essence and first answer at a glance (60-word summary)

Knowledge of the name suited to a person’s spiritual vibration, and of which name is right for each individual, belongs to God; only a little knowledge has been granted to human beings. The name intended for each person is known to God, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. Claims that a suitable name can be determined through Abjad numerology and name vibrations are not acceptable.

Answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat)

Teacher and researcher in the intellectual tradition of wisdom and the Ahl al-Bayt | Soroush Bamdadān Cultural Center

The range of a human being’s vibration is so vast that no one but the One Creator can know its number, code, or sign. Beyond that, who but Almighty God could find a name suited to a person’s vibration? And does a person’s name even correspond to that vibration? Moreover, who can claim to have attained knowledge of the human being, when even people remain unknown to themselves?

Each person’s true name is known to God, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise!

الإسراء : 85 وَ يَسْئَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ قُلِ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي وَ ما أُوتيتُمْ مِنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلاَّ قَليلاً
They ask you about the Spirit. Say, “The Spirit is of the command of my Lord, and you have been given only a little knowledge.”

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