The word · The heart
الإِنَابَة
Inabah
Turning to Allah as a settled direction of life, not only as a return after one sin.
Also written · Inaba · Enabah · Anabah · Inabah ilallah · Munib · Muneeb · Turning to Allah · Returning to God · Turning back
The meaning
What Inabah means in Islam
The Qur'an commands, turn to your Lord and submit to Him (Qur'an 39:54). Writers on the heart place inabah a step past tawbah: tawbah leaves a wrong behind, inabah keeps facing Him afterwards, in ease as well as in trouble. The picture in the root is of returning again and again to the same place.
Evidence · Qur’an · Stated directly in the Qur’an
Read beside it
Words that sit beside it
- TawbahTurning back to Allah from a sin: stopping it, regretting it, and resolving not to return.التَّوْبَة
- IstiqamahStaying straight: keeping to the path steadily, over years, without dramatic swings.الاسْتِقَامَة
- RidaContentment with what Allah decrees, so the heart stops arguing with what already happened.الرِّضَا
- DhikrRemembrance of Allah, in set phrases and in the wider habit of not forgetting Him.الذِّكْر
More from The heart
- 'AfwPardon: dropping a wrong you are owed, without the other person having to earn it.العَفْو
- GhaflahHeedlessness: not the denial of the truth, but the habit of never getting round to it.الغَفْلَة
- KadhibLying: saying what you know is not so, in speech, in a hint, or in a misleading silence.الكَذِب
- NamimahCarrying words between people in a way that sets them against each other.النَّمِيمَة
- Sakha'Generosity: giving easily, before being asked, without making the receiver pay in dignity.السَّخَاء
- TafakkurDeliberate reflection on creation and on your own life, treated as an act of worship.التَّفَكُّر