My servants! If the first of you and the last of you, the humans of you and the jinn of you, were all possessed of the most God-fearing heart of a single man among you, that would not add a thing to My dominion.

My servants! If the first of you and the last of you, the humans of you and the jinn of you, were all possessed of the most depraved heart of a single man among you, that would not diminish My dominion in the least.

My servants! If the first of you and the last of you, the humans of you and the jinn of you, were to gather together on one plain and each were to ask of Me, and I were to grant every person his request, that would not reduce what is with Me except as the ocean is reduced when a needle is dipped into it once.

My servants! These are but your deeds; I take full account of them for you and then repay you in full. Whoever finds good, let him praise Allah, and whoever finds other than that, let him blame no one but himself.”

Thus the Exalted commands His servant to praise Allah for whatever good he encounters, and if he encounters evil he should blame only himself.

[The Distinction Between the Cosmic Reality and the Religious Reality]

Many people speak in the language of “reality,” yet they do not differentiate between the cosmic, decreed reality that pertains to His creating and willing, and the religious, prescriptive reality that pertains to His approval and love; nor do they distinguish between one who upholds the religious reality in conformity with what Allah has commanded on the tongues