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Hafiz Salahuddin Yusuf

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “pakistani islamic scholar”. Today it says “indian born pakistani islamic scholar and former editor-in-chief of al-aitisam weekly”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Pakistani Islamic scholar, writer, and mufti”. It now reads “Pakistani Islamic scholar (1945–2020)”.
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Hafiz Salahuddin Yusuf ( Urdu : حافظ صلاح الدین یوسف ‎; 1945, Jaipur , India – 12 July 2020, Lahore , Pakistan ) was Pakistani Islamic scholar, Qur'anic commentator, author, researcher, commentator and was former editor-in-chief of Al-Aitisam Weekly (a Pakistani weekly magazine) for twenty four years.1 He was the head of Darussalam's Research Division department in Lahore.

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “pakistani islamic scholar”. Today it says “indian born pakistani islamic scholar and former editor-in-chief of al-aitisam weekly”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Pakistani Islamic scholar, writer, and mufti”. It now reads “Pakistani Islamic scholar (1945–2020)”. Read the current article and compare.
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pakistani islamic scholar

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indian born pakistani islamic scholar and former editor-in-chief of al-aitisam weekly

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