What is "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
• Zahid Anwar,University of Peshawar Professor

In Sir Richard Burton's Kasidah the Zahid is defined as "the "Philister" of "respectable" belief" 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"

Zahid is a surname. Persons with the name include:

• Agha Zahid, Pakistani cricketer
• Daanish Zahid, convicted of the racially motivated murder of Kriss Donald in Scotland
• Mohammad Zahid (cricketer, born 1976), Pakistani cricketer