The Holy War — Page 178
178 31 May 1893 CE Statement of Deputy Abdullah Atham Sir, your saying that mercy occupies the first and superior status is opposed manifestly to 7:53 because this clearly directs that no attribute is lower than another and that each has its own full stature. The gentleman has also very rightly stated that until a law is not breached, punishment is not applicable and the sin is not placed on him, that is why children who are not aware of the nature of sin and the congenitally insane cannot sin. In fact, if somebody does not know the nature of a sin and he perpetrates the act, the attribute of justice will not arbitrate it, and that action will not be regarded as a sin. If God were to act based on His being the Master in such a way as to breach the nature of His other attributes, then the whole structure of His Holiness is turned upside down. It is, therefore, not correct that because of His Mastery He can do as He wishes so much so as even to commit a transgression. Moreover, the association of justice with mercy is not such that that which is mercy cannot be said to be just and that which is just cannot be mercy, but both these attributes belong to the One Holy God. And it is not possible that the Word of God should say that God is wrongfully Wrathful, but it is also written that He is the fire that consumes the sinners—Deuteronomy 4:24. The law comes into being as a result of the action of a lawmaker,