The difference between repentance and forgiveness
Question What is the difference between tawba(repentance) and maghfira(forgiveness) Praise be to Allah. When the two words are used together, istighfaar means seeking protection from the evil of what is past, and tawbah means returning to Allaah and seeking protection from the evil of one’s own bad deeds which one fears may lie ahead in…
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tawba(repentance) and maghfira(forgiveness)
Praise be to Allah.
When the two words are used together, istighfaar means seeking
protection from the evil of what is past, and tawbah means returning to Allaah and
seeking protection from the evil of one’s own bad deeds which one fears may lie ahead
in the future.
Istighfaar and tawbah are among the pairs of words which
the scholars say convey one another’s meanings when used alone, but which have their
own separate meanings when they are used together. And Allaah knows best.