Tawba qabl al-Safar
Definition
Al-Ghazali recommends making sincere tawba — repentance — before undertaking any significant journey, because travel involves the genuine possibility of death, and the traveller who departs with unresolved sins and broken relationships carries a burden that compromises both the spiritual quality of the journey and their readiness for the possibility that they may not return. Settling debts, reconciling with those who have been wronged, making a will, and seeking forgiveness from family members are all part of the prophetically informed preparation for travel — practices that force the honest reckoning with mortality that ordinary life's comfortable permanence allows one to postpone.
As understood in the classical tradition of Imam al-Ghazali and the scholars of his school.
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