“The adl of Allah is to believe Allah cannot do any...

“The adl of Allah is to believe Allah cannot do any injustice or wrong towards anyone.” (Ahsan ul Aqaid page no. 111) The scholars have used the terms of ilm e kalam (theology) in this explanation. I will explain its meaning briefly so you can understand its mehfoom (meaning). There are two words “husn” and “qabeeh”. Husn is when a thing is comprehensibly complete. Qabeeh is when a thing is incomplete. Allah is comprehensibly complete. In other words He is the creator of completeness.

It cannot even be imagined there is anything regarding Him which is incomplete. Automatically whatever is complete is associated with Him and every incompletion cannot be associated with Him. Allah has blessed man with a way of examining the husn and qabeeh. If man uses this blessing, he can easily determine whether anything is good or bad. That blessing is ‘qalb’ (intellect). If intellect considers something to be good, then it is good. If intellect considers something to be bad, then it is bad.

This is the basic principle. Ask anyone in this world which is good, truth or lie. Every person will answer without hesitation that truth is a good thing and a lie is a bad thing. If you ask which is good, knowledge or ignorance, they will reply knowledge is good and ignorance is bad. If you ask someone which is good, adl or zulm (cruelty), every one will reply adl is good and zulm is bad. Now I will explain by using the words of Allama Hilli.

“Because adl is a ‘husn’ (comprehensively complete), it is wajib (compulsory) upon Allah, and it cannot be separated from Allah. Because zulm (cruelty) is ‘qabeeh’ (incomplete), no such act of cruelty can be associated with Allah. Adl is wajib for Allah and cruelty is impossible.”The scholars have explained the adl through this principle which we mentioned in the chapter of shirk in detail. It means creation naturally cannot accept any incompletion from its Creator.

For this reason, when the creation considered anything to be comprehensively complete in themselves, then they expect to see it present in their Creator. Creation’s understanding of whether or not something is complete is limited due to their intellect.. It does not mean their Creator is also limited to their understanding. We can only say regarding the comprehensively completeness of our Creator that He is free from every incompletion.

Because cruelty is an incompletion, it cannot be associated with the Creator.