Repentance in Islam is accepted with its conditions and is not performed through a person

Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. After this, a message reached the program from the Syrian Arab Republic, and its sender is a listener who symbolized his name with the letters Ha, Ha, Ha. He asks and says: In our country, there is a shaykh to whom people come from all over. He takes their repentance, as he calls it, and at that time he orders them to testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. He orders them to perform the full ritual bath, and he also orders them to apply the rulings of repentance and the rulings of the Shari'ah of Allah. What is your opinion of such an action?

Answer:
May Allah reward you with good. This act is invalid and there is no good in it. This is from the practice of the Christians; they are the ones who do not repent except in the churches and with the priests. As for the religion of Islam, praise be to Allah, the Muslim repents to Allah at any time and in any place, without going to anyone or being tied to a shaykh among the shaykhs. For Allah, Mighty and Majestic, commanded repentance, and He the Exalted said: [Surah Al-Imran]. And He, Glorified and Exalted is He, said: . And He mentioned among the attributes of the doers of good that when they commit an indecency or wrong themselves, they remember Allah and seek forgiveness for their sins . And He, Glorified be He, did not restrict us to returning to a person or to a place to repent in that place or with that person. Rather, we repent to Allah, between us and Allah, Mighty and Majestic. And He, Glorified and Exalted is He, knows our deeds, our intentions, and our purposes, and He hears our words, and He accepts the repentance of whoever repents to Him sincerely in his repentance.
The important thing is that a person corrects the conditions of repentance. Allah the Exalted said: "nasuh" (sincere). And "nasuh" is the pure repentance that fulfills its conditions: that one abandons the sin, that one resolves not to return to it, and that one regrets what has passed. And if this sin involves a created being, such as having wronged some people or transgressing against them, then in addition to these three conditions, a fourth condition is added: that he returns the injustices to their owners, or seeks their forgiveness, so that his repentance is valid and accepted by Allah, Mighty and Majestic. This is what is required in repentance. As for being tied to a person, going to him, and having him take conditions or money from us, and giving us directions and ordering us to do things, all of this is from falsehood and from the newly invented innovations (bid'ah). Rather, this is the religion of the Christians.