Ashab
Americanplural noun
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Several of those were claimed by a new group calling itself Harakat Ashab al-Yamin.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
An Islamist group with possible links to Iran - Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya - claimed responsibility for the attack.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
The social media video appeared to have been posted by Iran-linked Islamist group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
Iran-aligned group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya - The Islamic Movement of the People of the Right Hand - made an unsubstantiated claim of responsibility for the attack on its Telegram channel.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
Ashab, or “comrades,” are those who are bound by oath to an alliance offensive and defensive: they intermarry, and are therefore closely connected.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
A series of alleged desecrations of the Guru Granth Sahib in 2015 sparked widespread protests across Punjab.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
It also opposed plans to assign unique identification numbers to physical copies of the Guru Granth Sahib and maintain a central register, saying such decisions should not rest with the government.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Clutching a box of sweets and a shiny blue-and-white toy airplane, Mr. Singh and his teenage daughter, Navpreet Kaur, bowed outside the place of worship, Talhan Sahib in the North Indian state of Punjab.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2023
Visitors pass through the town on their way to the famous Sikh shrine, Hemkund Sahib, and the Hindu temple, Badrinath.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
After all the people he had hurt, after the generations this family had haunted, we helped bring Jawad Sahib and his father to justice.
From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed
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