الواسع
كلمة (الواسع) في اللغة اسم فاعل من الفعل (وَسِعَ يَسَع) والمصدر...
Requesting repentance
(اسْتِتابَةٌ)
من موسوعة المصطلحات الإسلامية
المعنى الاصطلاحي
Asking a person who was formerly Muslim and became an apostate (a disbeliever) to repent and return to Islam.
الشرح المختصر
"Istitābah" (requesting repentance) means calling and asking the apostate, i.e. a Muslim who left Islam and became a disbeliever, to return to it.
التعريف اللغوي المختصر
"Istitābah": asking someone to repent. "Tawbah": repentance of a sin.