from God only so that we might have this quality. We have greater need of it, since we need the Real to treat us by it.
(Reconciliation between Servants)
Tenth is reconciliation, the greatest of which is reconciliation between people, as in His saying, exalted is He: ‘Set matters right between yourselves’ [al-Anfal 8:1].
It has been related in a report that God reconciles His servants on the Day of Resurrection. He stands the wrongdoer and the wronged before Him for judgment and redress.
Then He says to them, ‘Raise your heads.’ They see much good and say, ‘For whom is this good?’ God says to them, ‘For whoever gives Me its price.’ The wronged man says, ‘My Lord, who can afford its price?’ God says to him, ‘You can, by pardoning this brother of yours.’ The wronged man says, ‘My Lord, I have pardoned him.’ God says to him, ‘Take your brother’s hand and enter the Garden together.’
Then the Messenger of God, God’s blessings and peace be upon him, recited, ‘So be wary of God and set matters right between yourselves’ [al-Anfal 8:1], for God reconciles His servants on the Day of Resurrection.
(The Second Pole, upon the Footing of Abraham the Intimate Friend)
As for the second of the twelve Poles, he is upon the footing of Abraham the Intimate Friend, peace be upon him. He is the one to whom Sura al-Ikhlas belongs: his love for it admitted him to the Garden, and its reciter receives a third of the Qur’an. He has Abodes equal in number to its verses. He possesses argument and rational proof and engages deeply with intelligibles, so he is correct
