Wikipedia's first sentence called it “pakistani politician”. Today it says “pakistani islamic scholar and the founder and amir of tehreek-e-labbaik pakistan”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Pakistani Islamic preacher (1966–2020)”. It now reads “Pakistani Islamic scholar and preacher (1966–2020)”.
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Khadim Hussain Rizvi (born 22 May 1966) is a Pakistani politician, Islamic scholar of the Barelvi tradition, who is the founder of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan , a religious political organization founded in 2015 which is known to protes, powerfully and massively, against any change to Pakistan's blasphemy law .1Fluent in Urdu , Punjabi , Arabic and Persian , he is known for his fiery, poetic and passionate speeches, and, apart from the Qur'an and hadith, for heavily quoting the poetry of Imam Ahmed Raza Khan and Muhammad Iqbal , whom he considers to be his main influences.2He is considered a Pir or saint by followers.3"Asia Bibi: anti-blasphemy protests spread across Pakistan" . the Guardian . K K Shahid, "‘If I curse in anger, it is justified’" , The Friday Times .4
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Pakistani Islamic preacher (1966–2020) Khadim Hussain Rizvi ( ; 22 May 1966 – 19 November 2020 ) was a Pakistani Islamic author and the founder of Tehreek-e-Labbaik , a political-religious organization founded in 2015, known to protest against any change to Pakistan's blasphemy law .Fluent in Urdu , Punjabi , Arabic and Persian , he was known for his speeches in the defense of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad , and apart from the Quran and hadith , for heavily quoting the poetry of Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi and Muhammad Iqbal , whom he considered to be his main influences. "Asia Bibi: anti-blasphemy protests spread across Pakistan" . the Guardian . K K Shahid, "‘If I curse in anger, it is justified’" , The Friday Times . 1–7 Dec 2017 Vol.
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Pakistani Islamic preacher (1966–2020) Khadim Hussain Rizvi ( Urdu : خادم حسین رضوی ; 22 May 1966 – 19 November 2020 ) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar and the founder and Amir of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan , a religiopolitical organization founded in 2015, known to protest against any change to Pakistan's blasphemy law . Fluent in Urdu , Punjabi , Arabic and Persian , he was known for his speeches in the defense of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad , and apart from the Quran and hadith , for heavily quoting the poetry of Ahmad Raza Khan and Muhammad Iqbal , whom he considered to be his main influences.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “pakistani politician”. Today it says “pakistani islamic scholar and the founder and amir of tehreek-e-labbaik pakistan”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Pakistani Islamic preacher (1966–2020)”. It now reads “Pakistani Islamic scholar and preacher (1966–2020)”. Read the current article and compare.
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pakistani politician
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pakistani islamic scholar and the founder and amir of tehreek-e-labbaik pakistan
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