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Shukr
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “highly esteemed virtue in islam”. Today it says “arabic term denoting thankfulness”.
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Shukr ( Arabic شكر ), an Arabic term denoting thankfulness, gratitude, or acknowledgment by humans, is a highly esteemed virtue in Islam .1 The term may also be used if the subject is God, in which case it takes the meaning of "divine responsiveness". In a Sufi context, shukr is an internal state and its external expression. It is considered a station ( maḳām ) of the wayfarer ( sālik ).2
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highly esteemed virtue in islam
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arabic term denoting thankfulness
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