Zahid
Zahid is a given name for males. People named Zahid include:
- Zahid, Afzal, USA, CIO/COO Capital Bank
- Zahid, Ali, Canadian, COO and Co-Founder of VanHawks
- Zahid Ahmed, Indian Software Engineer, Warangal,Narsampet.((Kesper CEO))
- Zahid Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer
- Zahid Ali, Norwegian comedian
- Zahid Hussain, Pakistani academic
- Zahid Iqbal, English cricketer
- Zahid Mohammed (born 1984), convicted of abduction in the Kriss Donald murder case
- Zahid Pirzada, Pakistani field hockey player
- Zahid Saeed, Pakistani cricketer
- Zahid Shareef, Pakistani field hockey player
- Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Malaysian politician
In Sir Richard Burton's Kasidah the Zahid is defined as "the "Philister" of "respectable" belief"[1] and contrasted with the Soofi "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]
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