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ALI 423:JUSTICE OF GOD
Session 4 – December 6, 2017
QUICK RECAP
What did we discuss in the last session?
Meaning of Justice of God
Allah who is the Rabb of
All the Creation Grants
Them Their Creational
Needs & Gives Them
What They Deserve
Through Their Free Will
& Efforts
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Dimensions of Allah’s Justice
Allah’s Justice
This World
Direct Justice
Indirect Justice
Hereafter
ALI 423: Divine Justice - Ses 4 4
Summary – man made evil
Why Does Allah Allow
Humans To Oppress?
Allah Through His Wisdom Has Given Us
Free Will. He Will Not Stop Us Forcefully!
But He wants indirect justice to be
implemented and there is going to be
reaction to injustice!
ALI 423: Divine Justice - Ses 4 5
Summary – natural calamities & Defects
Only Material World Has
Relative Evil
Material World Is Limited
Best Possible Design
There can be spiritual causes
Human beings can protect themselves
Eventually No one will be deprived
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List of Doubts
Doubts Related to
Divine Justice
Differences
In creation
In opportunities
Question of Evil
Evil in this World
Manmade Evil
Natural Calamities & Defects
Tribulations
Evil in the Hereafter
Good deeds of non-believers
Eternal Punishment
Intercession / Shafa’ahALI 423: Divine Justice - Ses 4 7
DOUBT 4DIFFERENCE IN OPPORTUNITIES
Is it not unfair?
Difference In Opportunities
Why Do People Have
Different Opportunities?
Difference in Opportunities
Manmade
Natural Difference
ALI 423: Divine Justice - Ses 4 9
Difference In Opportunities
Difference in Opportunity
Difference in Responsibility
It is Balanced
Out
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It is Your Efforts That Matter!
نسان إل ما سعى وأن س ر وأن ليس لل س عيthat nothing belongs to man except what he strives for, and that he will
soon be shown his endeavor, (Al-Najm: 39 & 40) 11
DOUBT 5TRIBULATIONS
Why? And why only me?
Tribulations
Why Allah Puts Tribulations & Bala?! Why
Couldn’t He Just Make Everyone Happy!ALI 423: Divine Justice - Ses 4 13
Wrong Views
Why Is Sauna So Hot? Why I Have To Study In
School?
Why I Have To Face
Bala’ In The Dunya?
فةمف دار بلبلء 14
Understanding Tribulations Better!
Tribulations are not
Absolute Evil. But
They Are Relative
Evil.
They Are From Allah
The Wise
They Are there for a
purpose!
ئ ا شير وعسى أن تكه خير لك م ا وه Yet it may be that you dislike
something, which is good for
you, (al-Baqarah: 216)15
Tribulations Are Tests , And …
We Need Tests
ا أن ك ا آمنا وه م أحسب الناس أن ر تر ل ل رق ن ليرعلمن الل فر ذن من قربلهم ولقد فرترنا ال ر فترن
ا وليرعلمن الكاذبي الذن صدق Do the people suppose that they will be let
off because they say, ‘We have faith,’ and
they will not be tested? Certainly We tested
those who were before them. So Allah shall
surely ascertain those who are truthful, and
He shall surely ascertain the liars. (al-
Ankabūt: 2 & 3)
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Tests Are There To …
Wake Us Up
منره م الصال اوقطعناه م ف الرض أ م ن ومنره م
لك نه م بل د ون ذ وبرلات لعله م سنات والسيئ
ن جع ر
We dispersed them into communities
around the earth: some of them were
righteous, and some of them otherwise,
and We tested them with good and bad
[times] so that they may come back. (Al-
A‘raaf: 168)
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Tests Are There To …
Make Us Strong & Give
Us Higher Perfections!
ل نك م بشيء من ع ونرق ولنربر وال ص من الال والنف س والثم ات الم الذن ن الصاب وبشن ا إن لل وإن إ إذا أصابرتره م مصيبة قال راجع ليات م م ورحة أ ولئك عليهم صل وأ ولئك ه م ن رب
الم هتد ون We will surely test you with a measure of fear and
hunger and a loss of wealth, lives, and fruits; and
give good news to the patient —those who, when an
affliction visits them, say, ‘Indeed we belong to Allah
and to Him do we indeed return.’ It is they who
receive the blessings of their Lord and [His] mercy,
and it is they who are the [rightly] guided. (Al-Baqarah: 155-157) 18
Tests Are There To …
Purify Us From Our Sins Tribula
tions
For Oppressors it is a means of correction
For a believer it is a test
For Awliya it is a means of increasing their Darajaat
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DOUBT 6ETERNAL PUNISHMENT
Is it not too much?
Eternal Punishment
Isn't That Evil!
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System Of Cause & Effect
Every Effect Is In
Proportion To Its CauseSmall Cause Small Effects!
Big Cause Big EffectsALI 423: Divine Justice - Ses 4 22
Don’t Go By The Zaahir ….
Cause Might Appear
Small But It Is Big!
Our Actions Can Have
Eternal Effects!
ALI 423: Divine Justice - Ses 4 23
Difference Between Dunya & Aakhirah
How Much Difference Is
There Between Womb-
World & Dunya!
Aakhirah Is Purely For
Hisab & Accounting
Aakhirah Has Infinite
Potential
Reward & Punishment Is
the Baatin Of That Action
Itself
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Eternal Punishment Is For Those …
• Who Deliberately Sin
• Who Do Not Repent
• The Sin Is Of Great
Magnitude
• May Be It Is Because
Soul Reaches A Stage
That He Cannot Now
Return. It Is Disfigured
Eternally
العذاب إذا ه م فرلما كشفنا عنره م ن نك ث
But when We lifted the
punishment from them,
behold, they would break
their pledge. (Al-Zukhruf: 50)
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What Should We Do?
What Is My Duty!
• Intellectually Or At Least
Religiously Accept That Eternal
Punishment Is There & It Is Just
• Be Very Careful Of Our Actions
• Generally Know What Things
Cause Eternal Punishment
• Leave The Details To Allah & The
Ahl Al Bayt (a)
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Example
Murdering A Believer
ا فجزاؤ ه جهنم خ ومن رقت ل م ؤمن ا مترعم ا فيها د الد ولع عذاب وغضب الل علي وأعد ل ا ن عظيم
[٤:٩٣ ]Should anyone kill a believer intentionally,
his requital shall be hell, to remain in it
[forever]; Allah shall be wrathful at him and
curse him and He shall prepare for him a
great punishment. (Al-Nisaa: 93)
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Example
Murdering A Believer
ة من أصحابنا عن أح -1 الد د بن م مد بن خ عد ع ة عن أب عبد الل عن ع ثمان بن عيسى عن ساع
ل الل ع : قال عن قر ل و من رقت -ز و جل سألت من قال [ خالدا فيها]م م ؤمنا م ترعمدا فجزاؤ ه جهن فذلك الل الم ترعمد الذي قال قرتل م ؤمنا على دن
عذاب ع -عز و جل ل ظيما قر لت فالج و أعد ل و بري الج ل ش ن ب بسي ي رقع برير ء فريض فريرقتر ل ف
قال قال الل عز و جلليس ذلك الم ترعمد الذيALI 423: Divine Justice - Ses 4 28
END OF SESSION 4(JUSTICE OF GOD COURSE)