Thawab

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 Prophet Muhammad.

In Kazakh society, for instance, it may be pronounced as "sauap", by Bengalis as "suab", "sowab", "sovab" or "swab", in Iran as "savob", in India and Pakistan as "sawab".

The primary contributing factor on the extent of the reward is based on one's intention in one's heart – the silent, unspoken one that God is aware of and not the expressed, articulated one.

Spiritual good includes the acts of worship including prayer (obligatory and supererogatory), remembrance of God in the aftermath of the prayer or at any other time, acts of prescribed charity (zakat), reading of the Quran, among others.

The moral good comes from treating parents with love and affection, and not with disdain; visiting sick people, keeping ties of kinship, spending money wisely in charitable causes, giving family their due rights, etc.