Sentence examples for shaheed from inspiring English sources
noun
An Islamic or Sikh martyr, one who has died fulfilling a religious commandment and is thus promised a place in Paradise.
Among other sophistic arguments, some terrorists say that Allah, and not the bomber, decides whether the latter will die, and whether women and children will perish with the shaheed (martyr).
Imagine how many of them could have been shaheed [martyrs] as well.
Occasionally, a chat-room member will announce that he is turning in his user name and password and going to Iraq to become a martyr, a shaheed.
But when it became known that Khoury was Palestinian, and that his father, Elias, was a prominent lawyer who had contested land cases against Israeli settlements, Arafat's office called the Khoury home twice to apologize, and the Brigades declared George a shaheed — a martyr — and said the killing was a case of "mistaken identity".
Bhutto's autobiography, "Daughter of the East," published in 1989, is an exercise in mythologizing, portraying her autocratic father as a democrat and a saintly shaheed, or martyr, and Benazir herself as a devoted inheritor who "tried to keep my father near me by sleeping with his shirt under my pillow".
When a candidate is placed in a cell, usually after months, if not years, of religious studies, he is assigned the lofty title of al shaheed al hayy, "the living martyr".
Those who survived bombs set off by the radical left and other secularists were glorified as shaheed-e zendeh, or living martyrs.
When was the last time, did anyone showed some respect or even a two-minute silence for Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Azad, Sukhdev or any of the people because of whom we are free-living Indians?
The defense claims that the four men were entrapped and that the plot was entirely the product of a paid government informant, Shaheed Hussain, a Pakistani with a criminal history.
Lawyers for the men argued that they had been impoverished and gullible victims who had been "psychologically coerced" by the informer, Shaheed Hussain, who spent months persuading them — at one point offering $250,000 — and using his knowledge of Islam to "shamelessly exploit" their "religious inclinations".
Defense lawyers in the Newburgh case refer to the informant — Shaheed Hussain, a Pakistani who was an informant in an earlier terrorism sting in Albany that was controversial — as an agent provocateur who earned his keep by scouring mosques for easy targets.
