And know that the repentance of his Lord is guaranteed to be accepted, and the servant’s repentance is in the place of possibility, because of the faults and lack of knowledge of fulfilling its limits and conditions, and God’s knowledge of it. So the knowers are human beings who ask their Lord to repent to them, and their portion of repentance is confession and asking, and nothing else. This is the meaning of the Almighty’s saying, “And repent to God.” All of you, that is, return to confession and supplication as your father Adam did. Returning to God by the path of the covenant while not knowing what is in God’s knowledge is a great danger, for if any transgression remains upon him, then that covenant must be broken, so those who break God’s covenant are united in his saying. After his covenant, he did not see a more complete knowledge than Adam, peace be upon him, when he confessed and supplicated, and did not make a covenant with God, a repentance in which he resolved that he w