Tawba, turning or return, is repentance from sin, and in the Sufi manuals the first station. The Qurʾān describes God too as the one who turns, al-Tawwāb, the relenting. Sufis distinguished repentance from sins, from heedlessness and finally from seeing one’s own repentance.
Tawba
Repentance: turning back to God, the first station of the Sufi path.
Also: Tawba, repentance