But if you don’t, this matter would indeed reach its natural end.

If you say: Without any doubt, the reaching of good and bounties to the children of a person in fact reverts to him and it is a favor done to him due to the love and affection man has for his children and progeny. Rather, often it is seen that man, rather all living things consider good done to their offspring better than if it had been done to themselves, in their lifetime or after their death.

In the same way it is mentioned in traditions that: The souls of the believers come to see their children. If they see them in comfort and peace they are pleased and if they see them in hardships, they are aggrieved by it. And other traditions also prove the subject of our discussion. But to punish or subject to hardships children for the offences of their ancestors is something that neither reason nor Qur’an agrees to.

Reason considers it injustice and injustice is a defect that Allah cannot be associated with. In the Holy Qur’an it is also mentioned: وَلَا تَزِرُ وَازِرَةٌ وِزْرَ أُخْرَىٰ “And no bearer of burden shall bear the burden of another.” (Qur’an, Surah Anaam 6:164) I say: When people are involved in hardships and calamities it is sometimes a penalty for their sins and mistakes and sometimes a means of elevating their status and increasing their rewards.