And when those who believe in Our signs, by effacing their attributes, come to you, say, 'Peace be upon you, for exalting yourselves above the faults of your attributes and your disengagement from the garments of these [attributes]. Your Lord has prescribed for Himself mercy: He has committed His essence to replace your attributes with His attributes as a mercy for you, since in God there is compensation for all that has gone before: truly whoever of you does evil in ignorance, that is, upon whomever there manifests in his variegation one of his attributes as a result of absence or forgetfulness, but then returns from that variegation after the manifestation [upon him] of that attribute and rejoins the presence, having come to know that [attribute] and curbed it through repentance to God and humble submission before Him and [through] spiritual discipline, truly He is Forgiving, covering that [attribute] from him, Merciful', to him by granting him fixity and the grace of uprightness.