«فَقُلْتُ اسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبَّكُمْ إِنَّهُ كَانَ غَفَّارًا»
So I said: seek your Lord’s forgiveness; He is surely most forgiving.
Istaghfirū means to seek forgiveness, while ghaffārā expresses abundant forgiveness. Both derive from the root gh-f-r.
The verbal echo ties the command to seek forgiveness to the divine attribute that gives it hope and purpose.
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Radd al-ʿAjz ʿalā al-Ṣadr: Repetition, Paronomasia and Derivation in Prose and Poetry
«فَقُلْتُ اسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبَّكُمْ إِنَّهُ كَانَ غَفَّارًا»
So I said: seek your Lord’s forgiveness; He is surely most forgiving.
Istaghfirū means to seek forgiveness, while ghaffārā expresses abundant forgiveness. Both derive from the root gh-f-r.
The verbal echo ties the command to seek forgiveness to the divine attribute that gives it hope and purpose.