a needle diminishes the sea when dipped into it.] (1) O My servants, you can never cause Me harm, nor can you ever bring Me benefit. O My servants, they are only your deeds: I record them for you and then recompense you for them in full. Whoever finds good should praise Allah, and whoever finds otherwise should blame no one but himself.” (2)

He thus made clear (3) that any good found in the form of reward is something for which Allah is to be praised, since He is the One who bestows both that reward and the means leading to it. As for punishment, He (4) is just in imposing it, so the servant should blame no one but himself.

As has been said:

Every blessing from Him is grace,
and every punishment from Him is justice.

[The proponents of this position say:

The Quran and Sunnah support only this position. In numerous passages, Allah has declared Himself exalted above acts of injustice that are possible and within His power, such as diminishing a person’s good deeds or burdening him with the sins of another.

As for His creating the servants’ acts and singling out the people of faith by assisting them in obedience, neither has anything whatsoever to do with injustice. This is agreed upon by Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jamāʿah and all others, from every theological group, who affirm divine decree. The Qadariyya, however, claim that this is injustice, and their discourse about declaring what is just and unjust (5) is contradictory and unsound, as has been explained elsewhere.] (6)