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A king being in mate (shah-mat) then means a king is unable to respond, which would correspond to there being no response that a player's king can make to the opponent's final move. This interpretation is much closer to the original intent of the game being not to kill a king but to leave him with no viable response other than surrender, which ...
* CheckMate Kish Mat "Chase - dead" (Kish is a warning phrase that must be said whenever the next step kills the king, it basically means "I'm chasing your king so you better move away", Maat means "died", aka your king has already died so don't even try) I'd always heard it coming from Persian, not Arabic, and being shah mat-- death
The word 'checkmate' comes from the Persian term in the game, ‘shah mat’, meaning 'the king is dead'. [29] Another game named chaturaji was similar but played with four sides of differing colors instead of two, however the earliest source for this four sided board game is Al-Biruni's 'India', circa 1030 AD.
In this usage, the words "check" and "chess" come via Arabic from Persian shāh, meaning "king" [7] or "monarch" (Murray 2012:159). Less commonly (and obsolete), the warning garde can be said when a player directly attacks the opponent's queen in a similar way. This was mostly abandoned in the 19th century (Hooper & Whyld 1992:74).
Meaning widened from chess to general sense of "adverse event, sudden stoppage" and by c.1700 to (from Persian 'chek' (چك)"a token used to check against loss or theft" (surviving in hat check) and "a check against forgery or alteration," which gave the modern financial use of "bank check, money draft" (first recorded 1798), probably ...
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Bulleh Shah gave an entirely different color to the qawwali, adding verses in praises of Shahbaz Qalandar and giving it a large tint of Sindhi culture. It also venerates Ali, the cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad. Contrary to popular legend, renowned Pakistani composer Ashiq Hussain only composed a dhamaal version of it.
From its foundation by Shah Nimatullah, the Sufi order has rejected seclusion and quietism with an established a principle of meaningful participation and service to society. [ citation needed ] The Nimatullahi are still active, and are self-described as "an authentic Sufi order that has been in continuous existence for over 700 years.