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 "label": {
  "en": "Abdul Ahad Azad — Kashmir Times (Rao Farman Ali, 2026)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مقال رأي لراو فرمان علي في «كشمير تايمز» ⁦(14 مارس 2026)⁩ يقدّم القراءة المضادة في أوضح صورها: وصف آزاد بالملحد يخطئ طبيعة أزمته الروحية، فخصومته لم تكن مع الله قط بل مع حرّاس الدين، وينقل ردّه على المحافظين وحديث الفتوى بتكفيره.",
  "en": "Rao Farman Ali's Kashmir Times opinion essay of 14 March 2026, the fullest modern statement of the counter-reading: calling Azad an atheist mistakes his spiritual crisis, since his quarrel was never with God but with God's gatekeepers; it prints Azad's reply to the orthodox and records the near-fatwa declaring him an apostate."
 },
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  "title": "Abdul Ahad Azad: The Revolutionary Poet of Kashmir",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "Ali",
    "given": "Rao Farman"
   }
  ],
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
    [
     2026,
     3,
     14
    ]
   ]
  },
  "publisher": "Kashmir Times",
  "URL": "https://kashmirtimes.com/opinion/comment-articles/the-river-and-the-revolution-abdul-ahad-azad-and-readings-for-present-iran",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Opinion essay by Kashmiri researcher Rao Farman Ali in the Kashmir Times (online), published 14 March 2026 and read in full on the paper's site. Its counter-reading in its own words: 'Calling Azad an atheist, as some orthodox clerics did, mistakes the nature of his spiritual crisis. His quarrel was never with God — it was with God's gatekeepers.' It also prints Azad's reply to the orthodox ('you have your own Deen and I have mine... My beloved feels delighted in unity, affection and sympathy') and records that the orthodox nearly issued a fatwa declaring him an apostate. An opinion piece, not scholarship; used only for the counter-reading it articulates, which the lane preserves unclassified.",
  "type": "web",
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  "status": {
   "review": "published",
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  }
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 "updated": "2026-11-06",
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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