Zahid
Zahid is a given name for Muslim males. Zahid is defined as "the noble man who stops other from wrong doing of 'respectable' belief",[1] explained as: "The Zahid is the literal believer in the letter of the Law, opposed to the Soofi, who believes in its spirit: hence the former is called a Zahiri (outsider), and the latter a Batini, an insider."[2]
Notable persons with the name include:
- Zahid Ahmed (actor) (born 1984), Pakistani actor
- Zahid Ahmed (cricketer) (born 1961), Pakistani cricketer
- Zahid Ali (born 1976), Norwegian comedian
- Zahid Iqbal (born 1981), English cricketer
- Zahid Mohammed (born 1984), convicted of abduction in the Kriss Donald murder case
- Zahid Pirzada (born 1958), Pakistani field hockey player
- Zahid Saeed (born 1981), Pakistani cricketer
- Zahid Shareef (born 1970), Pakistani field hockey player
- Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (born 1953), Malaysian politician
- Zahidullah Salmi (born 2002), Afghan cricketer, also known as Zahid
References
- p.16 Islamic History. London: The Octagon Press, 1974
- Burton 1974, p.104
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