He would also say: “O Allah, forgive my sin and my ignorance, my excesses in all my affairs, and whatever You know about me better than I. O Allah, forgive my inadvertent and deliberate sins, my jest and my seriousness—all of that is within me. O Allah, forgive what I have sent ahead and what I have left behind, what I conceal and what I make public, and whatever You know about me better than I. You are the One who brings forward and the One who defers; there is no deity but You.”

It is related that Adam, the father of humankind, sought his Lord’s forgiveness and repented to Him; so his Lord chose him, accepted his repentance, and guided him. As for Iblis, the father of the jinn, he obstinately clung to the argument of predestination, so Allah cursed him and drove him away. Therefore, whoever sins, repents, and feels remorse has resembled his father, and whoever