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is the creation of God. Therefore, according to the teach- ing of the Holy Qur’ a n, we are the property of God and we possess no right which we can claim from Him, for not rendering which He could be held responsible. In this juxtaposition we cannot call God 'Just'. As we are en- tirely empty-handed we call Him Ra hi m. To call Him 'Just' would imply that we have rights against Him and for failure to discharge such rights He could be charged with default. [Chashma-e-Ma‘rifat, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, Vol. 23, p. 36] The Holy Qur’ a n does not arbitrarily and without reason describe God the Glorious as the Master of all souls and all cells of bodies, as do the Ved a s. Almighty All a h sets forth the reason, as He says: 73 74 This means that the heavens and the earth and all that is in them belong to God Almighty, inasmuch as He has created them all. He has put a limit to the capacity and work of each cre- ated being, so that limited things should point to a Limiter Who is God Almighty Himself. Thus, we observe that as bodies are confined within their limits and cannot go outside of them, in the same way souls are also confined and cannot create more powers and capacities than those that have been invested in them. For instance, the moon completes its orbit within a month, that is, in twenty nine or thirty days, but the sun seems to complete its orbit in about three hundred sixty 73 al- H ad i d, 57:3 [Publisher] 74 al-Furq a n, 25:3 [Publisher] 80