taqwa
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic تَقْوَى (taqwā).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
taqwa (uncountable)
- (Islam) The care taken by a person to obey the commands of Allah.
- 2020 April 20, Sami Rahman, “Ramadan 2020: The health benefits of fasting”, in Al Jazeera:
- It involves abstaining from eating, drinking, smoking and sexual relations from dawn to sunset, in the hopes that it will lead to greater "taqwa", or consciousness of God.