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i.e. Allah forgives sins and Hanifah asked Imam
rewards whomever deserved Kadhim, who commits the
to. sin? Imam in His replying
In this regard, Saduq pondered three various
reported the following assumptions and relied on
tradition stated by Imam rational good and bad in
Sadiq, “Tawhid (Unity of Allah) the whole of which. Imam
and ‘Adl (His justice) are replied:
the foundations of religion” “It is not devoid of three
then, in order to elaborate aspects: Either it might
the meaning of Tawhid and be committed by Allah
‘Adl for the narrator said: and not from man, so it
Tawhid is to not consider is not deserved of All-
eligible on your Lord generous i.e. Allah to
what is permitted to you, punish His servant for
and ‘Adl is to not what he/she has not
attribute your Creator to performed, or by both
what He blamed you for. Allah and His servant;
(Saduq, 2000: 96) but it could not be such
because it is not
Thus, it exactly necessitates deserved of the strong
Allah’s legislating on the partner i.e. Allah to
basis of rational good and oppress His the weak
bad. partner. Furthermore, it
In another tradition quoted might be committed by
by Shaykh Saduq in “The the servant, then if Allah
book of Tawhid”, Abu
punished him, it would
