When he saw the state of the attendees, he asked, “Is there not anyone who cries in realisation of his personal misdeeds? Is this not a month of repentance and seeking forgiveness? Is this not a month of absolution? Are the doors of Paradise not opened during this month?  Are the doors of Hell not closed during this month? Are devils not chained in this month? Are blessings not showered upon fasting people during this month? Does Allah not reveal special 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:

اَفَسِحۡرٌ  ہٰذَاۤ   اَمۡ  اَنۡتُمۡ لَا تُبۡصِرُوۡنَ (ۚ۱۵)

Translation from Kanz al-Īmān: 'So, is this magic, or are you unable to see?'^[1]

All of you should enter the court of the Most-Forgiving, make istighfār and repent!” After hearing this moving discourse, people wept and cried bitterly in loud voices. At that time, a young man stood up, crying, and said, “Yā sayyidi! Tell me, are my fasts accepted? Will the worship that I performed during the nights (of Ramaḍān) 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 in which punishment is administered.”

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