Shahid

Shahid and Shaheed (Arabic: شهيد‎ šahīd, plural: شُهَدَاء šuhadāʾ ; female: šahīda) originates from the Quranic Arabic word meaning 'witness' and is also used to denote a martyr.It has been narrated on the authority of Anas b. Malik that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Who seeks martyrdom with sincerity shall get its reward, though he may not achieve it.By Him in Whose Hands my life is! I would love to be martyred in Allah's Cause and then get resurrected and then get martyred, and then get resurrected again and then get martyred and then get resurrected again and then get martyred.The Prophet said, 'Nobody who enters Paradise likes to go back to the world even if he got everything on the Earth, except a Mujahid who wishes to return to the world so that he may be martyred ten times because of the dignity he receives (from Allah).Haritha was martyred on the day (of the battle) of Badr, and he was a young boy then. His mother came to the Prophet and said, 'O Allah's Apostle! You know how dear Haritha is to me. If he is in Paradise, I shall remain patient, and hope for reward from Allah, but if it is not so, then you shall see what I do?' He said, 'May Allah be merciful to you! Have you lost your senses? Do you think there is only one Paradise? There are many Paradises and your son is in the (most superior) Paradise of Al-Firdaus.The Prophet said, 'Last night two men came to me (in a dream) and made me ascend a tree and then admitted me into a better and superior house, better of which I have never seen. One of them said, 'this house is the house of martyrs.'Allah's Apostle said, 'Five are regarded as martyrs: They are those who die because of plague, abdominal disease, drowning or a falling building etc., and the martyrs in Allah's cause.I heard the Prophet saying, 'Whoever is killed while protecting his property then he is a martyr.The Prophet collected every two martyrs of Uhud in one piece of cloth, then he would ask, 'Which of them had (knew) more of the Quran?' When one of them was pointed out for him, he would put that one first in the grave and say, 'I will be a witness on these on the Day of Resurrection.' He ordered them to be buried with their blood on their bodies and they were neither washed nor was a funeral prayer offered for them.this second martyrdom helped to make 'human rights and freedom of conscience' central to its identity.' Quote:This is the reputed place where several Kashmiri pandits came seeking protection from Auranzeb's army.'. ISBN 978-0-19-969930-8. Shahid and Shaheed (Arabic: شهيد‎ šahīd, plural: شُهَدَاء šuhadāʾ ; female: šahīda) originates from the Quranic Arabic word meaning 'witness' and is also used to denote a martyr. The word shahid in Arabic means 'witness'. Its development closely parallels that of Greek martys (Greek: μάρτυς – 'witness', in the New Testament also 'martyr'), the origin of the term martyr. Shahid occurs frequently in the Quran in the generic sense 'witness', but only once in the sense 'martyr; one who dies for his faith'; this latter sense acquires wider use in the hadiths. The term is commonly used as a posthumous title for those who are considered to have accepted or even consciously sought out their own death in order to bear witness to their Islamic beliefs. Like the English word martyr, in the 20th century, the word shahid has come to have both religious and non-religious connotations, and has often been used to describe those who have died for non-religious ideological causes. This suggests that there is no single fixed and immutable concept of martyrdom in the Muslim world. A shahid is considered one whose place in Paradise is promised according to these verses in the Quran: The Quran, chapter 3 (Al Imran), verse 169–170: The Quran, chapter 9 (At-Tawba), verse 111: