concept

Tawba

Beliefs & concepts

Turning back to God in repentance in Islamic ethical speech. Not teshuvah as Jewish return alone, and not istighfār as the spoken seeking-forgiveness word.

Also known as Tawbah · Tauba

Islam

  • Tawba appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an continually calls to tawba — turning back to God in repentance — and names God the Accepter of repentance. Islamic repentance speech in that revelation, not forgiveness as the divine act already walked and not penitence as the English twin alone.

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

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

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

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