🌹”A Hindu Astrologer Gave Me My Muslim Name”: A R Rahman by RKB

🌹This is the guy we all LOVE
🌹This is the guy who is so quietly confident without being self effacing that he is almost unreal
🌹The Real Indian Genius the whole world thinks the world of
🌹He was born Dilip; we know him as Rahman
🌹OUR RAHMAN..
♦️(A R RAHMAN, THE SPIRIT OF MUSIC by NASREEN MUNNI KABEER)
🌹”The truth is I never liked my name…. No disrespect to the great actor Dilip Kumar! But somehow my name didn’t match the image I had of myself.
🌹”Sometime before we started on our journey on the path of Sufism, we went to an astrologer to show him my younger sister’s horoscope because my mother wanted to get her married. This was around the same time when I was keen to change my name and have a new identity. The astrologer looked at me and said, ‘This chap is very interesting.”
🌹”He suggested the names: “Abdul Rahman” and “Abdul Rahim” and said that either name would be good for me. I instantly loved the name “Rahman.”
🌹”It was a Hindu astrologer who gave me my Muslim name”