He also said:

Section: On Justice in Speech and Truthfulness … (1)

I have discussed elsewhere aspects of truthfulness and justice, their place in the Quran and Sunnah, and their bearing on well-being in this world and the Hereafter. I have also explained elsewhere that most evil deeds fall under injustice, that most good deeds constitute justice, and that establishing equity is the purpose of sending the messengers and revealing the scriptures.

Equity and justice consist in treating two things equally. If those things are alike, this is the justice that is obligatory and praiseworthy. But if something is equated with what is unlike it, this falls under His words:

“Yet those who disbelieve set up equals to their Lord.”

As they said:

“We were indeed in manifest error when we equated you with the Lord of all worlds.”

Such equating, equalizing, likening, and associating partners with Allah constitutes tremendous injustice. Once it is understood that the underlying meanings of equating, equalizing, likening, reasoning by analogy, drawing comparisons, associating, comparing, and drawing parallels all belong to the same category, these terms can serve as evidence for sound analogical reasoning, both rational and scriptural. Dream interpretation also derives from this, for it rests on analogy, comparison, and the resemblance between the dream