A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, “Who would like this $20 bill?” Hands started going up. He said, “I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this.”
He proceeded to crumple the dollar bill up. He then asked, “Who still wants it?” Still the hands were up in the air. “Well,” he replied, “What if I do this?” And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now all crumpled and dirty.
“Now who still wants it?” Still the hands went into the air.
"My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20. Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value infront of Allah. To Him, dirty (due to sins) or clean (due to good deeds), crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to Him.
Lesson: Just like a mother always loves her child no matter how misbehaving he becomes, Allah loves His creation no matter how impure a person makes himself due to bad deeds. One should never lose hope in Allah’s forgiveness and turn to Him immediately (for forgiveness) after commiting a sin, no matter how big that sin is.