the All-Knowing. He will exact justice among the animals themselves, among human beings themselves, among the jinn themselves, and between jinn and humans. For people sometimes wrong the jinn, and the jinn sometimes wrong people—and the latter’s aggression against mankind is plentiful. One form of human aggression toward the jinn is when a person cleans himself with a bone after relieving himself, for the Prophet ﷺ forbade us to use bones for purification, saying, “They are sustenance for your brothers from among the jinn.” The jinn come across those bones; so if someone uses them to cleanse himself, he has infringed upon their share and soiled it, and it is feared that they may harm him in return for the harm he has caused them.

In any case, on the Day of Resurrection the wronged will surely be avenged upon the wrongdoer: the latter’s good deeds will be taken from him, unless they are depleted, in which case some of the former’s evil deeds will be transferred to him. The Prophet ﷺ said, “Do you know whom you consider bankrupt among you?”—that is, the one who owns nothing. They replied, “The bankrupt person among us is the one who has neither a dirham nor any property.” He said, “The truly bankrupt person of my community is the one who will come on the Day of Resurrection with good deeds as massive as mountains, yet he has struck this one, insulted that one, wrongfully consumed the wealth of another, and shed the blood of yet another. Each claimant will be given from his good deeds. If his good deeds are exhausted before all claims are met, their sins will be cast upon him, and then he will be flung into the Fire.”

Retribution for the oppressed against the oppressor is inevitable. However, if in this world the oppressed person claims his right by supplicating against the oppressor in proportion to the injustice, and Allah answers his prayer, then indeed