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The Role of Faith… A.M Bello et al / (47
It is necessary to state that in and which is free of malice and
this article, a goodly pure life evil in itself or its impact:
will be used for the phrase “The sentence explicitly
'Ḥayāt al-Tayyibah'. indicates that God
In a technical sense, Ḥayāt Almighty honors the believer
al-Tayyibah is a life free from who works righteousness
any form of pollution: with a new life different
“The Qur'anic phrase from that he shares with
‘Ḥayāt-i-Tayyibah’ other people, and it is
meaning 'a goodly pure not intended to change
life' signifies a 'clean' the attribute of life in
life from every point of him for example,
view; clean from all transforming his bad life
pollutions, cruelties, treasons, to good one while
hostilities, capturing meanness retaining the same basis
and all sorts of anxieties of life as it was. This is
including all of those because if that was what
things which turn the is intended, it would be
wholesome length of enough for Allah to say:
one's life into a ‘We will make his life
disagreeable one”. (Faqih good’ but He said: ‘We
Imani, 1997, Vol. 8: 569) shall revive him with a
good life’. And with this
In Tafsir al-Mizan, a goodly statement, the reason
pure life (i.e., Ḥayāt al-Tayyibah) why He described such
is described as a new life life with the adjective
different from that of other people
‘Tayyib’ (i.e., good or
pure) becomes clear, as
