governing the group firmly established as rights, as recompense for their glorifying God with His praise in this world and the Hereafter.
(The Faculties’ Obedience and the Governor’s Responsibility)
None of them disobeys God’s command by choice. If opposition occurs from them, it is through compulsion: the governor over them, whom they were commanded to hear and obey, compels them to it. If he is unjust, it is for them and against him; if he is just, it is for them and for him.
God did not give these subjects connected to him, whom we have mentioned, the power to resist what he compels them to do, unlike those beyond them who possess authority over them.
(Recompense and the Faculties’ Rights in Bliss)
God then described sensory recompense for them and made them witness it within worldly life through an example drawn from worldly bliss, with a promise of it in the Hereafter. Some He made directly witness it in the Hereafter while they were still in worldly life. Such a one saw and experienced through his vision a delight beyond measure. None delighted in it except those of his subjects who seek it, who then began asking him for their right to it and that he not withhold it. For the like of this ‘let competitors compete’ [al-Mutaffifin 83:26]. What preciousness could be greater?
(Bringing Together the Demands of Knowledge and Sense)
The knower whose knowledge is complete knows that within him are those seeking to witness his Lord and know Him through reflection and witnessing. He must therefore give them their right to this. He knows that within him are those seeking delicious food
