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AL-G͟HĀSHIYAH (الغاشية‎). “The Covering, Overwhelming.” A name given to the LXXXVIIIth Sūrah of the Qurʾān, the word occurring in the first verse for the Day of Judgment: “Has there come to thee the story of the overwhelming?”

G͟HĀSIL (غاسل‎). “A washer of the dead.” An official is generally appointed for this purpose by the Imām of the parish.

G͟HASSĀN (غسان‎). A tribe of Arabs inhabiting the western side of the Syrian desert in the time of Muḥammad. (See Muir’s Life of Mahomet, vol. i. p. clxxxiii.)

G͟HAT̤AFĀN (غطفان‎). An Arabian tribe descended from Qais.

G͟HAUS̤ (غوث‎). Lit. “One to whom we can cry for help.” A mediator. A title given to a Muḥammadan saint. Some hold it to be the highest order of sanctity, whilst others regard it as second in rank to that of Qut̤b. According to the G͟hiyās̤u ʾl-Lug͟hah it is an inferior rank of sanctity to that of Qut̤b.

G͟HAẒAB (غـضـب‎). “Anger,” “wrath.” A word used frequently in the Qurʾān for the wrath of God, e.g. Sūrah iv. 95: “God shall be angry with him.”