“COME, COME, NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, COME AGAIN.”

“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows (repentance) a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.” JELALUDDIN RUMI (A Sufi Master)

What Jalaluddin Rumi means is this: A person who has broken their repentance a hundred times has committed millions of sins themselves. However, when this person repents in front of their spiritual guide, all their sins are transformed into good deeds. This is exactly what Rumi intends to convey; that is, the message of our Lord in his verses:

“Only those who repent (in front of their guide) and become believers with faith written in their hearts, and who perform righteous deeds (purification of the soul), are the ones whose evil deeds (sins) God converts into good deeds (rewards). And God is Forgiving (the one who converts sins into rewards) and Merciful (the one who sends the light of mercy).” (Al-Furqan, 70-Holy Quran)”

“I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.” (Isaiah 44:22-Old Testament)

God Almighty says: “Whoever repents and performs righteous deeds that purify the soul, God will turn their sins into good deeds.” To perform righteous deeds that purify the soul means to engage in the purification of the soul. The purification of the soul only begins with following the guide.

First to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I preached that they should repent and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds. (Acts 26:20-Holy Bible)

“And We did not send any messenger except that he should be obeyed by permission of God. And if, when they wronged themselves, they had come to you, O Muhammad, and asked forgiveness of God, and the Messenger had asked forgiveness for them, they would have found God (accepting both requests) Oft-Forgiving (accepting their repentance and the Messengers request for their sins to be replaced with good), the Most Merciful. (AN-NISA 64-HOLY QURAN)

Upon the request of the companions, our Lord forgives all the sins of the companions, and at the request of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), He forgives them once more, transforming their sins into good deeds. This event is called forgiveness between the person who repents and God; and it is “intercession” between the person who repents and the imam of the time.

Forgiveness is a magnificent blessing from God in the direction of transforming sins into good deeds.