wajib

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَاجِب (wājib).

Noun

wajib (plural wajibs)

1. (Islam) A religious duty; something that Muslims are obliged to do.

Adjective

wajib (not comparable)

1. (Islam) A religious duty; something that Muslims are obliged to do.
   • 2004, Norman Calder, Jawid Mojaddedi, Andrew Rippin, Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature, Routledge (→ISBN), page 169:

     Further, that bounties are wajib, so revealed obligations are wajib. These cannot be known except through a prophet. So the existence of prophets is wajib, for that without which a binding duty (wajib) cannot be completed is itself wajib.

Synonyms

• fard