The Book of Repentance
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Translator
Zaid Yousef
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About The Book
At a time when people are encouraged to flaunt and take ‘pride’ in their sins, it seems more relevant than ever to raise awareness regarding the concept of tawbah, or repentance. It is from Allah’s immense mercy to His servants ﷺ that the doors of repentance are kept open right up to our final breaths. Our Creator, the Most Subtle ﷺ, is aware that we will inevitably err and sin. This short book compiles sections of Shaykh Muḥammad Metwally ash-Shaʿrāwī’s lectures that discuss the various facets of repentance to help us realise its reality and necessity.
It also includes discussions centred around Allah’s infinite mercy ﷺ so that we never tire from repentance. We deemed it appropriate to have these sections accompanied by Ibn ʿAsākir’s Kitāb at-Tawbah and Ibn Rajab’s Asbāb al-Maghfirah. The combination of these works on repentance, Allah’s mercy and His forgiveness ﷺ will no doubt prove an invaluable source for our eternal good fortune bi-idhni ’llāh.
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About the author
Muhammad Metwalli al-Sharawi: Muhammad Metwalli al-Sharawi (1911-1998 CE) was among the most beloved Qurʾan teachers of the modern Arab world, honored in Egypt as Imam al-Duʿat, the "leader of the preachers." He was born on April 15, 1911, in the village of Daqadus near Mit Ghamr in the Daqahliyya province of the Nile Delta, and had memorized the entire Qurʾan by around the age of eleven. He pursued his studies at al-Azhar in Cairo, graduating from the Faculty of Arabic Language in 1941. Over the following decades he taught Shariʿa abroad, including years at Umm al-Qura University and at King Abdulaziz University in Makka, and he served as Egypt's Minister of Endowments (Awqaf) from 1976 to 1978 under President Anwar Sadat. Ashʿari in creed, al-Sharawi became a household name across the Arabic-speaking world through his televised Qurʾanic reflections, Khawatir al-Shaʿrawi, in which he unfolded the meanings of verses in simple, vivid language that reached scholars and ordinary listeners alike. His spoken commentary was later gathered into a large printed tafsir, and many shorter treatises on faith, the unseen, and questions of good and evil circulate under his name. He died on June 17, 1998, mourned widely across Egypt and beyond. The works offered here, on the Qurʾan's wonders, the hereafter, and the trials of this life, carry forward his gift for making scripture speak to the everyday believer.
About the editor
Shoaib Shah: Shoaib Shah is a British translator, editor, and author who has devoted his career to making classical Islamic scholarship accessible to contemporary English readers. He graduated from the seminary Jameʿah Uloomul Qurʾan and later earned a Master of Arts from the Markfield Institute of Higher Education. He went on to teach at his alma mater for roughly eighteen years, lecturing especially on the Qurʾanic sciences and tafsir. For around seventeen years he has worked editorially with Turath Publishing, contributing as translator, editor, or author to a long list of titles across the Islamic sciences. His translations include Ibn Jamaʿa al-Kinani's Etiquette of the Learner (an abridgement of the Tadhkirat al-Samiʿ wa al-Mutakallim), the treatise on the virtues and rulings of Salat al-Tasbih, and Life of the Grave, on the states of the deceased until the Resurrection. He served as editor on Softening the Heart, a rendering of Ibn al-Mubarak's Kitab al-Zuhd wa al-Raqaʾiq, and on Imam al-Ghazali's Book of Counsels, among many others. He has also produced devotional compilations such as Our Lord: Forty Rabbana, and authored short works on the life and character of the Prophet, including A Day in the Life of the Beloved. His output reflects a steady commitment to careful, readable renderings of the tradition.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781915265562
Binding
Paperback
Publisher
Turath Publishing
Author
Muhammad Metwalli al-Sharawi
Pages
109
Translator
Zaid Yousef
Editor
Shoaib Shah
Year Published
2025
Size
W- | H- | D-
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