The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 124
124. Essence of Islam-1 of injustice. Thereby he confesses that Permeshwar is merely a judge and is not Master. On the same page he has recorded that Permeshwar cannot bestow unlimited reward for limited actions. But if He is Master, there is no harm in His rewarding limited service with unlimited reward. The Master's actions are not to be measured by justice. If we own something and out of it we bestow a portion upon someone who asks for it, no one else has the right to complain that more was given to another than to him. In the same way, a creature has no right against God. Almighty to demand justice. A servant cannot ask for justice nor can God admit the right of any of His creation to demand justice. Whatever God bestows upon a creature as a reward for his actions is purely His bounty. . Actions are nothing in themselves, for no action can be performed without the support and grace of God. When we reflect upon God's law, it becomes clear that whatever God Almighty has provided for His creatures is a bounty of two types. . One is the bounty which existed before the coming into being of man and man's action has nothing to do with it. . He has created for the benefit of man the sun, the moon, the stars, the earth, water, air, fire, etc. and there is no doubt that all these things were prior to the actions of man, and man himself came into being after them. This is the Divine mercy which, in the idiom of the Qur'ān, is called Raḥmāniyyat. That is to say, such bounty is not bestowed as a reward of a person's actions, but is by way of pure grace. . The second type of mercy is called Raḥimiyyat in the idiom of the Qur'ān; that is to say, the bounty that is bestowed upon man as a reward of his righteous actions.