If they are not from it, they are no less than pretensions.

If they are not from it, they are no less than pretensions. You have already come to know how He sanctions them and treats them as though they were real. His judgment in both places is one and the same: ‘... you will see no want of proportion in the creation of (Allah) the Most Gracious One.’ (Qur’an, 67:3).

Be informed that merely thinking well of Allah does not mean that one should remain inactive, leaving aside the doing of good deeds with the excuse that He thinks well of Allah, for this is one of the tricks of Satan the Accursed, may Allah grant us refuge from his mischief together with all those who believe in Muhammad (‘s) and his purified Progeny (‘a). Rather, it…