Kashif
Kashif is an Arabic word, commonly used as a male given name in the Muslim world. Its meaning is close to the "revealer", "discoverer", "uncoverer" or "pioneer", "explorer".
When used by Muslims, it is done so in the context of its Qur'anic usage referring to God as "the One who reveals." When applied to an individual, it means that the person has the quality of spiritual vision. The truth is obvious to them while hidden to others. For example, in the Qur'an, God refers to a people who have just died and suddenly see the error of their ways and the purpose of life which previously eluded them. After this realization, they ask God to send them back, as they now believe and want to do good works. Those who are "Kashif" have that understanding before death.
Given name
- Kashif (musician), American musician and singer
- Kashif Abbasi, Pakistani journalist
- Kashif Ahmed, Pakistani and United Arab Emirates cricketer
- Kashif Bangnagande, Japanese footballer
- Kashif Bhatti, Pakistani cricketer
- Kashif Daud, Pakistani cricketer
- Kashif Ibrahim, Pakistani cricketer
- Kashif Jawad, Pakistani field hockey player
- Kashif Naved, Pakistani cricketer
- Kashif Nisar, Pakistani television director and screenwriter
- Kashif Raza, Pakistani cricketer
- Kashif Shafi, Pakistani cricketer
- Kashif Shah, Pakistani field hockey player
- Kashif Sharif, Kuwaiti cricketer
- Kashif Shuja, Pakistani-born New Zealand squash player
- Kashif Siddiq, Pakistani cricketer
- Kashif Siddiqi, English-born Pakistani footballer
- Kashif Mahmood (cricketer, born 1995), Pakistani cricketer
Surname
- Hameed Kashif, American basketball player
- Ibrahim al Kashif, Sudanese singer popular 1940–1956
- Malak al-Kashif, Egyptian transgender activist
- Mohammad Kashif (Dutch cricketer), Dutch cricketer from Punjab
- Tolga Kashif, Turkish-Cypriot composer from London