concept

Penitence

Beliefs & concepts

The named moral turn of acknowledging wrong and seeking amendment. Not teshuvah as the Jewish return alone, and not contrition as inward sorrow alone.

Islam

  • Penitence appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an calls wrongdoers to turn in penitence and pairs regret with seeking forgiveness. Islamic penitence speech in that revelation, not tawba as the Arabic named turning alone and not Christian penitential sacrament invent.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

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sources

  • The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)

    M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).