﴿ وَٱلَّذِىٓ أَطْمَعُ أَن يَغْفِرَ لِى خَطِيٓـَٔتِى يَوْمَ ٱلدِّينِ ﴾

“and who, [hope, will forgive me my faults on Judgment Day!”

�And who, I hope, will forgive my iniquity on the Day of Judgement.�He [Abraham] expressed his words according to the requisites of propriety (adab) [before God], [poised] between fear and hope, and did not [assume] that forgiveness had been predeterminedfor him. His words, Exalted is He: