The Calligraphy on the Kaʿbah, and Allah's Joy

Allah (swt) says:

Muḥammad (peace be upon him) is told to inform His servants that Allah (swt) will forgive them all, for He is the most Forgiving, the most Merciful. This āyah is inscribed in gold calligraphy on the curtain of the Kaʿbah itself, on the side where the Ḥijr Ismāʿīl stands, beneath the golden waterspout — a beautiful thing to see for anyone who goes on Ḥajj. Together with it, in another hadith, comes the saying that His mercy completely surpasses His anger.

When a servant decides to come back to Allah (swt) with sincere tawbah — a young man, a young woman, deciding to return — how happy does Allah (swt) feel at that moment? Beyond imagination. This matters, because it is said that the God of the Muslims is presented by some, by the western media, as an angry God. That is not true, as Rasūlullāh's (peace be upon him) own words show. He says that Allah (swt), la-yafraḥu — using the emphatic construction the Arabic language reserves for total, unqualified certainty — feels joy, faraḥ, without any doubt at all, when a servant of His makes tawbah and comes back to Him, realising his mistake. Rasūlullāh (peace be upon him) gives three examples, three analogies drawn from the world of his own time, of what that joy is like.