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kaffāra

in Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

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kaffāra (A) : Qurʾānic term for an expiatory and propitiatory act which grants remission for faults of some gravity. al-Kaff; Ṣawm

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in Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

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kaffāra (A) : Qurʾānic term for an expiatory and propitiatory act which grants remission for faults of some gravity. al-Kaff; Ṣawm

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