Thawāb, Sawab, Sevap, Hasanat or Ajr (Arabic: ثواب, Hindi: सवाब saʋāb, Bengali: সওয়াব sôwab) is an Arabic term meaning "reward". Specifically, in the context of an Islamic worldview, thawāb refers to spiritual merit or reward that accrues from the performance of good deeds and piety based on the guidance of the Quran and the Sunnah of Muhammad.[1]
Pronunciation
editThe word thawāb is used throughout the Islamic world, so the spelling and pronunciation is slightly different from one region to another. In Kazakh society, for instance, it may be pronounced as "sauap", by Bengalis as "suab", "sowab", or "swab", in Iran as "savob", in India and Pakistan as "sawab".[2][3] Among Kurds its pronounced "Sewab". In Bosnian and Turkish the word becomes sevap.
See also
edit- Islamic views on piety
- Punya – Hindu view of Sawāb/Heavenly merit.
- Heavenly Merit – Christian view of sawāb.
- Hasanāt – from Arabic حَسَنَات
References
edit- ↑ Shan Muhammad (1980). The Indian Muslims: The Tripoli and Balkan wars. Meenakshi Prakashan, 1980.
... The consideration which the giver of the Sadka receives is the Sawab or religious merit. God promises Sawab in future and the Quran lays down that the promise of God is sure to be realized ...
- ↑ Bruce G. Privratsky (2001). Muslim Turkistan: Kazak religion and collective memory. Psychology Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-7007-1297-7.
... the Quran will "touch" them (tiye bersin), and the family will be blessed because of the merit (sauap; Ar. savab) ...
- ↑ Michael M. J. Fischer, Mehdi Abedi (1990). Debating Muslims: cultural dialogues in postmodernity and tradition. Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1990. ISBN 978-0-299-12434-2.
... dictation exercises plague Iranian schoolchildren, for instance, when teachers dictate kar-e savab savab darad ("there is merit in good deeds"), and expect the children to know that the first savab is spelled sawab ("good, right"), while the other is thawab ("merit, divine reward") ...
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