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                  justice  and  treated  us           something, He will fulfill it
                  with what is its beyond i.e.        because  breach  of  promise

                  His beneficence (Tafadhul).         for  reward  is  intellectually
                  (Saduq, 1993: 29)                   bad.
                                                         Noticeably, he implicitly
                  He  remarked  on  two               indicates to another rational
               rational  judgments  in  the           judgment. However, because
               above-mentioned  instance.             breach  of  promise  for
               Firstly, it is bad for the one         punishment          is      not

               who commands an action if              rationally       bad;       but
               he  himself  is  not  the  doer        beneficence      and     grace.

               of which. Thus, Allah, who             Thus, Allah favors upon us
               orders us  to  act  on  justice,       in respect of His promise of
               must  be  just  Himself,               punishment. The argumentation
               rather, He goes beyond and             concerning to divine justice

               favors  us  which  is  beyond          is  on  the  basis  of  rational
               of justice.                            good  and  bad,  as  the
                  Sheikh  Saduq  defined              pivotal  disparity  between

               justice  as  follows,  to  be          Adliyyah and Ashʽarite.
               rewarded for the good acts                In  this  regard,  Muzaffar
               and  punished  for  the  bad           said:

               ones.  (Ibid)  He  defined                The well-known discussion
               beneficence  as  something                of rational good and bad
               beyond  of  justice  and                  in  theology  is  the  major

               considered  essentiality  of              disparity between Adliyyah
               Allah’s  being  just.  Hence,             and Ashʽarite, while some
               if He promises a reward for
                                                         issues  like  believing  in
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