Then he says, “I wronged myself and confessed my sin, so forgive me all my sins. No one forgives sins except You.” He says in this speech, when he said before the instruction, that supplication that we presented after the takbeer of his question, the distance between him and his sins. He says, “I wronged myself with the sins I committed and confessed to you before you.” Before I pray to you, forgive me my sins, that is, cover up my sins for my sake. No one can cover them except you. You do not see me and come to me, so I am guilty of them, but I do not see them and they are pleasing to me, so I come to them and I am guilty of them. This is His saying, “distance between me and my sins as you distanced between the East and the West.” He says, “If You cover them from me at this distance, we will not witness them.” So that I can be free to accept what you have invited me to do, for if my sins make me witness and you do not conceal them from me, shame and astonishment when I see them p