Know that God has a restricted existence, an absolute existence, for He, Glory be to Him, has restricted some of His goodness to existence, so He said, “Your Lord has decreed upon Himself mercy,” that is, He has obligated and imposed upon Himself mercy for a special people. He has described them with a special action, which is that whoever among you does evil out of ignorance and then repents after him and continues. Indeed, He is Forgiving and Merciful This is generosity that is restricted by obligation for the one whose quality is this, and it is a substitute for this specific work and repentance and reform of absolute generosity, so his generosity was brought about by his generosity, and no one else judged him and no one else restricted him, and the servant between the two generosities is a transient spectacle and an ever-present spectacle. Sahl bin Abdullah, our scholar and our imam, said, “I met Satan, so I recognized him, and he knew from me that I recognized him, so I fell.