His words, “All is from Allah,” would be evidence against you, as explained above. His subsequent words,

“Whatever good befalls you is from Allah, and whatever evil befalls you is from yourself,”

do not contradict this. Rather, Allah has bestowed both the “good” and its reward, while the “evil” originates in the human soul, even though it occurs by His decree and predestination. As He, Most High, says:

“From the evil of what He has created.”

Thus, some created things have evil in them, even though they exist by His decree and predestination.

Yet you say that obedience and disobedience are both brought about by human beings, without Allah causing either person to act, and without Allah singling out the believer for a blessing and mercy through which he obeys Him. This contradicts the Quran.

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If it is asked:

“If acts of obedience and disobedience are predestined, and blessings and calamities are predestined, why does He distinguish between good things, meaning blessings, and evil things, meaning calamities, attributing the former to Allah and the latter to the human soul?”

The answer is:

Because there are distinctions between them: