shirks

Noun (1)

shirk (plural shirks)

1. One who shirks, who avoids a duty or responsibility.
   • I may add here that, coming as the soldiers did from all avocations and stations in life, these details for fatigue often brought together men few of whom had any practical knowledge of the work in hand; so that aside from the shirks, who could work but would not, there were other who would but...1887, John Davis Billings, Hardtack and Coffee, Or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life, pages 101–102

   Synonyms:

   dodger

Noun (2)

shirk (uncountable)

1. The unforgivable sin of association (claiming something or someone can share in the oneness of God).
   • A person can have committed shirk in their lifetime and still find forgiveness (especially by saying the Shahada and becoming a Muslim). The concept is that if one dies in this state (as a mushrik, an idolator, one who engages in and does not repent shirk), there is no forgiveness.2013, James R. White, What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Qur'an, Baker Books, →ISBN

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