تَوْبَةٌrepentance

Example sentences

• فأتاه فقال إنه قتل تسعه وتسعين نفساً، فهل له من توبة؟

  So he came to him and said, 'He has killed ninety-nine people, is there repentance for him?'

  تَوْبَةٍ — repentance. Genitive after that 'any', this is 'a repentance / turning-back' — the thing he asks whether he can still have. The whole question reads 'is there for him any repentance?'. Its ending follows from the particle.

  From: Righteous Company →

• فدل على رجل عالم فقال إنه قتل مائة نفس فهل له من توبة؟

  He was directed to a scholar and said, 'He has killed a hundred people; is there repentance for him?'

  تَوْبَةٍ — repentance. Genitive after that 'any', this is 'a repentance' — what he asks whether remains open. The question reads 'is there for him any repentance?'. Its ending follows from the particle.

  From: Righteous Company →

• فقال نعم، ومن يحول بينه وبين التوبة؟

  He said, 'Yes, and who can prevent him from repentance?'

  التَّوْبَةِ — repentance. Genitive after 'between', this is 'the repentance' — the thing nothing can bar him from. It closes the 'between him and repentance' idiom. Its ending follows from 'between'.

  From: Righteous Company →

• وأنفذ العصاة بالتوبة من الخطايا إنقاذا،

  And He redeems the disobedient through repentance from sins as salvation.

  بِٱلتَّوْبَةِ — through repentance. The bi- here marks the means, 'by way of', linking the redeeming to its instrument, 'repentance'. The al- makes the noun definite, and bi- governs it into the post-preposition form, framing repentance as how the rescue happens.

  From: Signs of God's Transcendence →