تَابَrepented

Example sentences

• ويرسلها مع أنفاس الأسف حتى جاءه توقيع فتاب عليه

  And he sent them with sighs of regret until a decree came to him, and He accepted his repentance.

  فَتَابَ — and he repented. fa- = 'so, then'; past-tense verb 'taba' ('relented, accepted repentance'), 'he' form; with the next word 'alayhi' it means 'He relented toward him'.

  From: Adam's Descent →

• فَإِنَّ آدَمَ قَدْ تَابَ إِلَى رَبِّهِ فَاجْتَبَاهُ وَهَدَى

  For Adam had repented to his Lord, so He chose him and guided him.

  تَابَ — he repented. A plain past-tense verb 'repented', carrying its own hidden 'he' subject; the completion particle just before it sharpens it to 'had repented'. The verb's three-letter core is the root that the whole repentance vocabulary is built on.

  From: Patience Under Decree →

• وَتَابَ عَلَيْنَا وَعَلَى جَمِيعِ الْمُذْنِبِينَ

  May He accept our repentance and the repentance of all sinners.

  وَتَابَ — and He accepted repentance. A past-tense verb, here used as a prayer-wish, 'and may He relent toward us / accept repentance'. The perfect tense doing wish-work is standard in Arabic supplications. The leading wa- joins this petition to the protection prayed for just before, and the subject, God, is left understood.

  From: The Four Inner Guards →

• وَمَنْ يَفْعَلْ ذَلِكَ يَلْقَ أَثَامًا يُضَاعَفْ لَهُ الْعَذَابُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ وَيَخْلُدْ فِيهِ مُهَانًا إِلَّا مَنْ تَابَ وَآمَنَ وَعَمِلَ عَمَلًا صَالِحًا

  And whoever does that will incur sins; the punishment will be doubled for him on the Day of Resurrection, and he will abide in it abased, except for whoever repented and believed and did a righteous deed.

  تَابَ — he repented. A past-tense verb 'repented' with a built-in 'he' subject, the first condition of the exception. The past form here states a completed turning-back. The subject sits inside the verb, so 'whoever repented' needs no separate pronoun.

  From: The Gravity of Murder →