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Glossary 319 Ra h m a niyyat see Ra h m a n. Ra hi miyyat see Ra hi m. Shariah Islamic religious law S u rah A chapter of the Holy Quran. Taqw a A term in Arabic that liter- ally means ‘righteousness’. Zak a t ‘That which purifies’. One of the five pillars of Islam; also re- ferred to as almsgiving.