The rules and regulations and the limits and Boundaries of indecencies and virtues and moralities have been defined in the previous verses. Here the argument is driven towards the terms and conditions of repentance: ``Allah accepts the repentance of those who do evil in IGNORANCE and soon after the sin, they repent and return.''
By `IGNORANCE' here we understand it to mean the outburst of instincts, passion, and the domination of caprices, and the prevalence of such evil powers over the wisdom and belief. In such condition, man's knowledge and wisdom may be defeated or vanquished for the time being, and one may yield his will to Satanic temptations and do wrong.
When knowledge has no effect, ignorance must have replaced it, and hence the verse:
``But soon after sinning they repent and amend their way.''
It is such a repentance that might be accepted by Allah.