This meaning or sense of justice rules over all of the created universe...

This meaning or sense of justice rules over all of the created universe, in the galaxies, within an atom, in the structure of a human being’s existence and all plants and animals, This is what the famous Tradition of the Holy Prophet refers to when he says, “It is by means of justice that all of the heavens and the earth exist.” For example, if the powers of ‘attraction’ and ‘repulsion’ of the earth lose their sense of balance and one of these two is removed or destroyed, the earth will be drawn towards the sun, set on fire and destroyed or it will leave its circuit and wander in the endless space of the universe until it is destroyed.

B- Another meaning of ‘justice’ is ‘the following of individual rights’ and the point opposite is ‘oppression’ in the sense of taking ‘the rights of some’ and giving them exclusively to others or taking away someone’s rights and giving them to another, to discriminate in the sense that some people are given their rights and others are not. It is clear that the second meaning is a ‘particular’ one and the first one is ‘general’.

It should be noted that both meanings are truthful in relation to God, even though the second meaning will be more emphasized here. The meaning of God’s justice is not to remove the rights of a person nor give the rights of one to another or to discriminate between people; He is Just in all senses of the word and the reasons or proof of His Justice will be mentioned in the next lesson.

Oppression, whether it be the taking away of a person’s rights or by giving the rights of one to another, or wastage and discrimination, does not exist in the pure Essence of God. He never punishes a person who does good. He never encourages a person who does evil, no one will be held responsible for the sins of another. He does not burn the wet and dry together.

Even if everyone is in error in a large society, other than one person, God separates the accounts of that one person from that of others and does not punish that person along with sinners. And the fact that the Ash’arites said, “Even if God sends all of the prophets to hell and all of the criminals and sinners to heaven, it is not oppression,” is vain babble and baseless. The intellect, which is never polluted with superstition and discrimination, will not listen to these ugly words. 3.