Sin is indeed the worst of all forms of uncleanness there can be, and according to Ibn ??Arab??, as verse 33 of the Sura Al-Ahz??b guarantees the utter purity of the ahl al-bayt, it necessarily follows that the latter, like the Prophet, benefit from this ghufr??n, this divine absolution solemnly proclaimed in the second verse of the Sura Al-Fath (Q. 48:2).