شَيْخٍsaint

Example sentences

• أَحَدُهُمَا أَنْ يَجْعَلَ لِلَّهِ نِدًّا وَيَعْبُدَ غَيْرَهُ مِنْ حَجَرٍ أَوْ شَجَرٍ أَوْ شَمْسٍ أَوْ قَمَرٍ أَوْ نَبِيٍّ أَوْ شَيْخٍ أَوْ نَجْمٍ أَوْ مَلَكٍ أَوْ غَيْرِ ذَلِكَ،

  One of them is to set up for Allah an equal and worship something else, such as a stone, tree, sun, moon, prophet, saint, star, angel, or anything else.

  شَيْخٍ — a saint. A bare indefinite noun, 'a shaykh/holy man', another listed example, in the (genitive) form under the governing 'of'.

  From: The Sin of Idolatry →