Al-Furqan 70: Except for those who repent sincerely, has faith and who commit salih deeds. They repel evil with goodness. Allah is Ghafoor (Most Forgiving) and Raheem (the One Who very generously accepts repentance).

Verse 70 of Surah Al-Furqan: "Except those who repent and believe and do good deeds; they are different," says Allah Almighty. So first let me explain just this much to you: "Except those who repent and believe and do good deeds; they are different," it says. Now what does this part correspond to? "If you had not made mistakes, We would destroy you and create on earth servants who make mistakes," He says. Why does He say this? Allah Almighty has given us a part of His essence. It resembles His essence. If we made no mistakes, our Lord would have created a being equal to His essence. So He creates us fallible and deficient.

We will understand our faults and deficiencies. We will take refuge in our Creator. We will repent. When, for the evils we have done, we repent and ask forgiveness from Allah Almighty, it will accord with Allah Almighty's purpose of creation. So in this case, those who repent, believe and do good deeds are different. That is: "O my Lord, in my period of ignorance I did such and such things, but I know that I have disobeyed You. From now on I will keep away from such things, and I will never do such a thing. Because You are my Lord. I am obliged to do what You say. And I am obliged to give thanks for the blessings (?)" — when you say this, what does Allah Almighty say? "They," He says, "are different." (?) now. "Allah turns their evil deeds into good deeds," He says.

And what does the Prophet say? "Even if your sins had reached the clouds in the sky, when you make a fervent repentance from the heart, We turn them into good deeds," he says. What does it say here anyway? Well: "He turns their evil deeds into good deeds," it says. "Allah is Most Forgiving." Why is Allah Most Forgiving? Because Allah created us deficient. He created us fallible. Since our intellect is deficient, we will certainly make mistakes. If our Lord had not forgiven us for these mistakes, none of us would ever see paradise.

Yes. And now let us confirm it with the verse, too. Let us confirm what I said with His verses. "If you were seized at once for the mistakes you made, you would not find on earth a single living being walking about," He says. Yes. That Allah Almighty is vast in mercy — He says it in such beautiful verses already. "Allah is Most Forgiving, vast in mercy," He says. We have more or less explained the verse to you here, but let's read what we have written here and look at that too.

But if people realize that the paths they follow are bad and wake up, see the truth and repent with faith in Allah, if they give Allah their word that they will never return to the bad paths they took, then, since Allah is vast in mercy, He not only forgives their sins but turns these sins into a load of good deeds. Allah's pardon and forgiveness are abundant. For Allah created people deficient in intellect. He has sent them to His great world, which is a lost world. So He has sent people prophets, books and scholars, so that they may find the truth. Since every intellect knows Allah, if people, without being stubborn, without digging in their heels, turn to what is right — if people created deficient in intellect, after the sins they committed, later realize it and return to the truth, Allah will surely forgive the sins of such people. There is no other god besides Allah whose door these people could knock on and take refuge in.

There is only one door to take refuge at: Allah's door and His essence. Indeed, Allah created people so that His essence would be known. People know their mistakes and their helplessness. If they grasp Allah's divinity and believe that He is the absolute owner and ruler of the worlds, and have faith, Allah forgives these servants and also turns their sins into good deeds. When these people return from the bad path to the truth, in their character, too, a change takes place: their avoiding killing and cruelty, turning to mercy, shunning sins, seeking good deeds, turning from evil to good shows that these are good people. Indeed, a person's knowing Allah makes him a good person.

And this is the result of Allah's gift and vast mercy to people. Because if a person knows Allah's essence and turns to Allah, takes refuge in Allah's essence in his helplessness and asks to be forgiven his sins — in a hadith the Prophet (peace be upon him) says: "Even if your sins had risen to the clouds in the sky, when you repent with faith in Allah, He turns these sins of yours into good deeds." Yes.