در جست و جوي رحمت الهي (2)

In Search of Divine Mercy (II)

The present paper is a written version of Muhammad Taqi Mesbahʹs lecture entitled In the Search of Divine Mercy, addressed to students in the Qom Seminary School. It deals with the role of repentance in forgiving sins. In repenting, one should understand his humility and inferiority before the Almighty God, returning to Him with confidence and belief in His forgiving wrongdoings, and supplicating Him for overlooking his faults. With an understanding of oneʹs absolute poverty and desperation, an understanding of the Almighty Godʹs infinite mercy, and returning to Him, there is the possibility of forgiving on the part of the Almighty God. Man should see himself as a helpless creature to whom all ways are closed off, as someone drowned in an undulant sea with no way out; in such a state, the only one whose doors are open to all is the Almighty God, and the possibility of repentance comes only from Him. This is the true meaning of repentance.