showered upon fasting people during this month? Does Allah not reveal divine manifestation in this auspicious month? Are one million sinners not freed from Hell at the time of ifṭār every night during this month? What is the matter with you that you deprive yourselves of this great reward and rebelliously resort to arrogance (meaning, you do not perform virtues and remain absorbed in sins)?  Allah has said:

اَفَسِحْرٌ  ھٰذَاۤ   اَمْ  اَنْتُمْ لَا تُبْصِرُوْنَ (ۚ۱۵)

So is this sorcery or you do not see?^[1]

All of you should enter the court of the Most-Forgiving, seek forgiveness, and truly repent!” After hearing this moving discourse, people wept and cried bitterly. At that time, a young man stood up crying, and said, “Your eminence! Tell me, are my fasts accepted? Will the worship that I performed during the nights (of Ramadan) be recorded with that of those whose worship is accepted even though I have committed many sins and have destroyed my life in disobedience? I was heedless regarding the day of retribution.”

The saint Manṣūr b. ꜤAmmār رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه said, ‘O young man! Repent in the court of Allah, as He has stated in the Quran:

وَ اِنِّیْ لَغَفَّارٌ لِّمَنْ تَابَ

Indeed, I am Most-Forgiving for the one who repents^[2]’

The saint then instructed a qārī to recite the following verse: