Moses said, “Strengthen your strength with it, and recite in the presence of Abu Yazid. Indeed, the oppression of your Lord is severe.” He said, “My oppression is more severe.” This is because the slave’s oppression is devoid of universal mercy, and God’s oppression is not like that, for divine mercy accompanies him and he knows it, and so it is with the slave’s oppression, except that the servant does not witness it nor find any trace of it. In himself, even if he has mercy on himself with that oppression, but he does not know, and God is All-Knowing of all things, He is All-Knowing that His mercy encompasses everything, so it expands his oppression and the oppression of the universe, but not every oppressive person knows that, and since the servant has oppression from what he has appointed, and he has oppression over his Lord, but not the Lord in reality. He brutalized his servant, so Abu Yazid added the oppression of his Lord to his own oppression, and he said, “My oppression i