tawbah (تَوْبَة)

(Language: Arabic)

Alternate Spellings: tawba

Short Description: In Islam, “repentance” from sin. Also “penitence”

Long Description: In Islam, “repentance” from sin. Also “penitence.” It is also the title of Surah 9, taken from verse 104: “Know they not that Allah is He who accepteth repentance from His bondsmen and taketh the alms, and that Allah is He who is Relenting, the Merciful.”

Sources: Prayer Fashions Man: Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual Life