Maryam 60: Aside from those who repent, who believe and commit righteous deeds. They will enter Paradise and they will not suffer oppression by any means.

To verse 60 of Surah Maryam we have come.

Except those who repent and believe and do righteous deeds. Now pay attention to this verse. What does it say? I will read this much. There is more to it. Except those who repent and believe and do righteous deeds, they are excepted. So it says these are forgiven, doesn't it? Well, since the verses confirm one another, since they do not contradict one another, can you say that Allah does not guide the disbelieving people? Go ahead. Within the disbelieving people. Doesn't that meaning come out? Except those who repent and believe. So he was without faith, and he came to believe. And those who do righteous deeds are excepted, it says.

So you cannot say that Allah does not guide the disbelieving people. How can you say that?

The disbelieving people, that is, that people, as long as it continues in disbelief, cannot attain guidance. What is it?

That people, that is, a people without faith, as long as it continues in faithlessness, that is in disbelief, cannot attain guidance. So if it repents, it (?) attain guidance. Look, it says except those who repent, believe and do righteous deeds. So people have turned the verses, according to their own minds, into superstition. Their translations, I mean. It is clear here, isn't it?

For they will enter Paradise and will not be wronged in anything. These are the ones who repent and believe. Who do righteous deeds. Yes. Allah Almighty, of the people who lived in the age of ignorance, (?) the sins through repentance. For Allah did not create us free of error. If you had not committed errors, We would destroy you and in your place create servants who commit errors, He says. In this case, since Allah Almighty knows what man is, even if it is a disbelieving people, finding the truth among them and reaching what is right (?), since He knows this, would Allah ever say: Allah does not guide the disbelieving people?

Those peoples who continue in disbelief, as long as they continue in disbelief, cannot attain guidance. How beautiful. Yes. What is this? It is that people, by the decisions they made with their own partial will, will be called to account before Allah. That is what Allah, being free of deficient attributes, means when He says every person, for what he did with his two hands, will be called to account. Today, without anyone being wronged, everyone will be held to account for what he earned, for what his own two hands did, it says. Yes. Those who turn away from deviant and dark paths, who understand that the path they followed is bad and dark, and who repent and turn to Allah are excepted.

These are those who, in an unseen world, followed their passing selfish desires. Then, when they see the truth, people who turn to the truth, when they understand their mistakes, when they repent, they find Allah Almighty most forgiving and merciful. Just as Allah Almighty forgives the sins of such people, He also turns their burden of sins into good deeds. In a hadith, the Prophet (peace be upon him) says this: Even if your sins reached the clouds in the sky, when you, with a (?) heart, repent and return to our Lord, Allah Almighty those sins will turn into good deeds for you. Yes.

The Prophet (peace be upon him), in one of his hadiths, as we have said, even if your sins have reached the stars in the sky, when you repent and resolve never again to commit these sins, Allah Almighty turns this burden of sins of yours into good deeds, he said. Those who repent in this way, Allah Almighty admits into His Paradise; those who repent, Allah Almighty admits into His Paradise; there they are not wronged in anything.

Why? Because the Highest Paradise is a place of joy and delight. In a place of joy and delight there is no torment or suffering. That is one. And one whose sins are forgiven, spotless like one just born from his mother, enters Paradise. Spotless. But this word "spotless", even some so-called scholars, truly sincere ones. I know one. Very sincere, but because of a wrong meaning, and because of that very sincerity, the person cannot turn back. He invents a lake at the gate of Paradise. He has them go into the lake and wash, and lets them into Paradise clean. Yet Allah Almighty, in another verse, says: you come to the House of Allah, perform the tawaf, and then, after praying two rak'ahs at the Station of Abraham, like one just born from your mother, spotless, He says.

Spotless. Sinless.

you return to your homeland. Now here "spotless", these poor people think it means the body and clothing. Whereas "spotless" means a person being cleansed of sins and entering Paradise without sin. The angels welcome them. "Peace be upon you. Today you have come spotless," they say. That is, you have come without sin. That is where, the verse says, they are not subjected to any torment. They are not wronged in anything.

Where? In Paradise. Why? Because Allah Almighty has the attribute of justice. If you have a crime and Allah Almighty admitted you to Paradise with that crime, there He would wrong you, He would give the penalty for it. So in no way; sinless, spotless, he goes in; that is, there is no lake at the gate of Paradise where he washes and goes in. The verses are clear; come on, it is plain, everything is plain. But it is hard to explain this to people.

There they are not wronged in anything. That is, with the sins they committed in the past thrown in their faces, they are not subjected to insult or wrong. Those who repent before Allah and receive forgiveness for their sins, Allah does not again call those persons to account for their past sins. What is gone is gone. What is past is forgiven. As long as one does not commit the same mistakes again. Yes.