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Taqwa
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “concept in islam that is roughly described as being the care taken by a person to do everything allah has comma”. Today it says “islamic term for being conscious and cognizant of god”.
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The opening as it read in 2005
This article or section should be merged with Islam . Taqwa is a concept in Islam that is roughly described as being the care taken by a person to do everything Allah has commanded and to keep away from everything that He has forbidden. In Christo-Islamic terms: it is equivalent to the Christian concept of "fear of God" described in Luke 12:4-5. v t e1
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “concept in islam that is roughly described as being the care taken by a person to do everything allah has comma”. Today it says “islamic term for being conscious and cognizant of god”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
concept in islam that is roughly described as being the care taken by a person to do everything allah has comma
Now
islamic term for being conscious and cognizant of god
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