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  "en": "Farhat Hashmi — English Wikipedia"
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  "ar": "مقالة ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية عن فرحت هاشمي؛ تُستخدم لوقائع الكيان فقط. عالمة وداعية باكستانية كندية وُلدت في سرغودا سنة 1957، حاصلة على الدكتوراه من جامعة غلاسكو، وأسّست سنة 1994 مؤسسة الهدى الدولية لتعليم النساء القرآن والحديث، وهاجرت إلى كندا سنة 2005.",
  "en": "English Wikipedia article on Farhat Hashmi; used for entity facts only. A Pakistani-Canadian Islamic scholar and preacher born in Sargodha in 1957, with a PhD from the University of Glasgow, who founded the Al-Huda International Welfare Foundation in 1994 to teach women the Qur'an and Hadith, and emigrated to Canada in 2005."
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  "title": "Farhat Hashmi",
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     2026,
     6,
     24
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  "publisher": "Wikipedia (English), revision 1360933955 of 24 June 2026",
  "URL": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhat_Hashmi",
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  "reliability_note": "Pointer for entity facts only (Wikipedia rule, AGENTS.md): a fact is used only where the article cites a source for it. Read in full on 26 October 2026 at the recorded revision (oldid=1360933955; revision equality asserted). It gives her born in Sargodha, Punjab, on 22 December 1957; a master's in Arabic from the University of Punjab and a PhD in Islamic studies from the University of Glasgow; lecturer and assistant professor posts at the International Islamic University, Islamabad; the founding of Al-Huda International in 1994 and of its Mississauga institute in 2004; her emigration to Canada in 2005; and her television preaching on Geo TV. On affiliation it gives the infobox religion as Islam with the creed field blank; its categories file her under 'Canadian Salafis' and 'Pakistani Salafis'; it reports that liberal critics such as Raheel Raza have termed her a 'Wahhabi', and, citing Akbar Ahmed's Journey into Islam (2007), that Hashmi and Al-Huda state they do not follow any particular sect of contemporary Islam and refer to themselves simply as Muslims. Her father is described as a scholar and a local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan — family background.",
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 "updated": "2026-10-26",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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