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Surah Al-Furqan — 25:71

وَمَن تَابَ وَعَمِلَ صَـٰلِحًا فَإِنَّهُۥ يَتُوبُ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ مَتَابًا

Wa man taaba wa 'amila saalihan fa innnahoo yatoobu ilal laahi mataabaa

A kto się nawróci i czyni dobro, ten, zaprawdę, nawraca się ku Bogu pełen skruchy!

Whoever repents and does good — truly turns to God in sincere repentance.

Reflection

The promise just before this is an unusual one, that God exchanges a person's bad deeds for good, and this line sets its terms by counting repentance together with what someone then does. The Arabic doubles the root t-w-b and lands on mataban, a turning-place, which gives repentance a location, somewhere a person arrives at. Commentators differ over whether that exchange reaches deeds already committed or only what comes after.

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