Staff
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Etymology
The triliteral root ṣād fā wāw (ص ف و), according to corpus.quran.com occurs in the Quran 17 times.
Compare with English «staff» - "group of selected military officers that assists a commander".
Compare with Germany «Stab» - "a symbol of authority to the selected group of military officers".
Compare with Russian «штаб» - "(military) headquarters, staff".
In the Quran
(2:130) Who would abandon the creed of Abraham except one who stops his psychic (development)? We have staffed (Arab. اصْطَفَيْنَاهُ, iṣ'ṭafaynāhu) him in this world, and in the Hereafter, he is of the reformers.
