The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 371
Punishment in this World 371. First, there are those offenders who do not transgress the limits, and though out of extreme bigotry they persist in their effort yet they do not carry their persecution to the extreme limit. These will be punished in the hereafter. . God, the All-Knowing, does not seize them in this world inasmuch as their attitude is not one of severe hostility. . For the punishment of sins the appointed day is the Day of Judgement. . Secondly, there are those offenders who transgress the limits in their wrongdoing and persecution and desire to rend the Messenger of God and the righteous like wild beasts and to wipe them out altogether, and to consume them like a blazing fire. With regard to such offenders who carry their wrath to the limit, the way of Allāh is that His wrath is roused against them and they are punished in this world in addition to their chastisement in the hereafter. In the idiom of the Qur'an they are designated the maghḍubi-'alaihim 155. [Toḥfah Golarviah, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 17, pp. 213-214]. It should be kept in mind that for being delivered from afflictions it is not necessary that people should become. Muslims, inasmuch as the Day of Judgement is appointed for calling people to account for their religious errors. It is, however, necessary that people should refrain from every type of misconduct and should not revile the holy. Prophets of God, nor oppress the poor, and should spend freely in charity and should ascribe no equal to God, neither stone, nor fire, nor man, nor water, nor sun, nor moon and should discard the ways of arrogance and mischief. [Chashma-e-Ma'rifat, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 23, p. 404] 155 Those who have incurred displeasure. ' [Publisher]