The Meccan Revelations: Page 46 from Volume Four

The reward of the one who does good deeds is this in the promise, and He said in the threat. So He forgives whom He wills and punishes whom He wills. Know that this confrontation is His saying, “My mercy prevails over My wrath,” and it is His saying, “And you do not will except that God wills.” So if a servant makes a promise and God wills that that servant will break his promise and what he promised, he wills. The servant may want to break the covenant, and if he had not done that, the creature would not have been able to will. So the servant then wanted to break the covenant and violate the promise of God’s will in creating the will of the servant. This is his saying, “And at a time I did not do it.”

Do not object to the servant, for he is forced to make his choice by My will, but it should The person in this dispute, if he sees that something like this has occurred from him, should look at the speech of the Sharia regarding it, and if he sees that the apparent point of it