Abdul Hai

Abdul Hai () is a Muslim male given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words ''Abd'', ''al-'' and ''Hayy''. The name means "servant of the Living God", ''Al-Hayy'' being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.

The letter ''a'' of the ''al-'' is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, often by ''e''. So the first part can appear as Abdel, Abdul or Abd-al. The second part may appear as Hai, Hay, Hayy or in other ways. The whole name is subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.

Notable people with the name include:

*Abdul Hai (UK politician) (born 1974 or 1975), British Bangladeshi acquitted of murdering Richard Everitt, later a Labour councillor in Camden *Abdul Hai (Bangladeshi politician), former MP for the Naogaon-5 constituency in Bangladesh *Saʿīd Abdul-Hay ibn Dhaḥḥāk ibn Maḥmūd Gardēzī, or just Abu Saʿīd Gardēzī, (died ca. 1061), Persian historian *Muhammad Abdul-Hayy Siddiqui, known as Bekhud Badayuni (1857–1912), Indian Urdu poet *Saleh Abdel Hai (1896–1962), Egyptian singer *Abdul Hai Habibi (1910–1984), Afghan scholar and historian *Abdel Hay Mashhour (born 1923), Egyptian academic administrator *Mohammed Abdul-Hayy (1944–1989), Sudanese poet *Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, known as Daniel Moore (poet), (born 1940), American poet, essayist and librettist *Asif Abdulhai Mulla, or just Asif Mulla (born 1980), Indian-Canadian cricketer *Abdul Hai Baloch, Pakistani politician *Abdul Hai Neamati, Afghan politician *Abdul Hai (Delhi cricketer), active 1934–1936 *Abdul Hai (Hyderabad cricketer), Hyderabad cricketer *Muhammad Abdul Hye (1919–1969), Bengali litterateur and linguist *Abdul Hai Arifi, Pakistani Islamic scholar (1898 – 1986) *Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi, Indian Islamic Hanafi scholar (1848–1886) Provided by Wikipedia