اِسْتِغْفَارforgiveness

Example sentences

• وإن زللتَ فـأستغفرُ الله معناها طلبُ سترِ الذنب مع عزمٍ على إصلاحه؛ فالاستغفارُ بلا تصحيحٍ مجرّدُ صوت

  And if you slip, 'I seek forgiveness from Allah' means asking for the concealing of the sin with a resolve to correct it; seeking forgiveness without correction is merely sound.

  فَالِاسْتِغْفَارُ — seeking forgiveness. 'so the seeking-forgiveness' — 'fa' drawing the upshot plus 'al-istighfar', nominative as a fresh topic. The verbal noun naming the whole act.

  From: Remembrance That Reshapes the Heart →

• فَالَّذِي مضى تصلحه بِالتَّوْبَةِ والندم وَالِاسْتِغْفَار

  So what has passed can be corrected by repentance, remorse, and seeking forgiveness.

  وَالِاسْتِغْفَارِ — and seeking forgiveness. A third item in the 'by' list, still genitive. The word is a Form X action-noun, where the 'ista-' shape itself carries the sense of seeking, so it means 'the asking for forgiveness'.

  From: Repentance and Resolve →