Allah The Exalted — Page 93
All a h the Exalted 9 mutual equality. God Almighty is Just in the sense that He acts justly as between creatures regarding their mu- tual rights, but He is not just in the sense that any creature of His might demand his right from Him as an associate. All His creatures belong to God and He has authority to treat them as He might wish. He might be- stow kingdom upon whom He wills and He might make a beggar of him whom He so wills. He might cause any- one to die young or He might bestow a long life upon any. We ourselves when we own anything are free to bestow it as we might choose. Indeed God is Merciful; rather, He is the Most Merciful of all. By virtue of His mercy, and not out of any limits in consideration of jus- tice, He provides for His creation. As we have repeatedly affirmed, the quality of M a likiyyat and the quality of jus- tice are inconsistent with each other. Having been created by Him, we have no right to demand justice from Him. We supplicate Him humbly for mercy. It is most unbecoming for a creature to demand justice from God Almighty in His treatment of him. As every- thing relating to the nature of man is from God and all of man's faculties, spiritual as well as physical, are His bounty and a good action can be performed only through the support and strength bestowed by Him, it would be the height of ignorance to demand justice from Him rely- ing upon one's good actions. We cannot consider such a teaching to be based on true knowledge. Indeed such a teaching is deprived of all true understanding and is full of folly. God Almighty has taught us in the Holy Qur’ a n that to call God Just vis-à-vis His creatures is not only a sin, but a rank blasphemy. [Chashma-e-Ma‘rifat, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, Vol. 23, pp. 32-34]