Definition of Shahadah

1. Noun. The first pillar of Islam is an affirmation of faith.

Generic synonyms: Pillar Of Islam, Witness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shahadah

shaggymanes
shagnasties
shagnasty
shagpile
shagreen patch
shagreen patches
shagreen skin
shagreened
shagreens
shagroon
shagroons
shags
shahada
shahadah (current term)
shahdom
shahdoms
shaheed
shaheeds
shaheen
shaheens
shahid
shahids
shahin
shahins
shahs
shahtoosh
shahtooshes
shahtush

Literary usage of Shahadah

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal by Isabel Burton (1876)
"... From shahadah el Halabi and Kasim el Halabi, in the Maydan quarter of Damascus. To His Excellency the Consul Bey of the British Government. ..."

2. To Die Before Death: The Sufi Way of Life by M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (1997)
"... refer to the five pillars of Islam: ash-shahadah (witnessing that none is God except Allah and Muhammad is His Messenger), prayer, charity, fasting, ..."

3. To Die Before Death: The Sufi Way of Life by M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (1997)
"... refer to the five pillars of Islam: ash-shahadah (witnessing that none is God except Allah and Muhammad is His Messenger), prayer, charity, fasting, ..."

4. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1882)
"Our companion, the Wakil Mohammed shahadah, could enumerate them by the score; and I wrote down the 23 principal, which are common both to South Midian and ..."

5. The Lebanon in Turmoil, Syria and the Powers in 1860: Book of the Marvels of by Iskandar ibn Yaʻqūb Abkāriyūs (1920)
"... a citizen of Damascus, called shahadah al-'Aky, dug [holes] (P. 185) in certain corners for his treasure, which he buried in three caches. ..."

6. The Lebanon in Turmoil, Syria and the Powers in 1860: Book of the Marvels of by Iskandar ibn Yaʻqūb Abkāriyūs (1920)
"... a citizen of Damascus, called shahadah al-'Aky, dug [holes] (P. 185) in certain corners for his treasure, which he buried in three caches. ..."

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