If you ask for forgiveness, which is a request for protection, then ask Him to protect you from the sin that befalls you, so you will be infallible or protected. And if you are guilty of sin, then ask Him to protect you from the punishment of sin befalling you. Beware of appearing to people about something that God knows is contrary to you, as someone who is trustworthy in me has told me about The blind Sheikh Abu Al-Rabi’ Al-Maliki was in Egypt serving the afflicted Abu Abdullah Al-Qurashi, so the Sheikh entered upon him and heard him saying in his supplication: Oh God, O Lord, do not expose his secret to us. The Sheikh shouted at him and said to him, “May God expose you in the presence of witnesses, O Abu Abdullah, and for what reason do you appear to God with a command and for people to differ from it?” Be truthful with God Almighty in all your circumstances, and do not harbor anything other than what you appear, so repent to God from that and return, and there is no relati