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- The idea of a contract, like in peace treaties, or renting, unifies Western and Islamic thought.
- Fulfilling contracts is important to avoid chaos — if a contract is breached, there are legal consequences in place to restore justice.
- As humans, creations of God, we have entered into a contract with the Creator, Who is the ultimate source of protection.
- If this contract is breached, then it is justifiable for the Creator to remove that protection from us.
- Severing a contract with the Creator, the ultimate source of protection, should also have consequences, which is why Hell exists:
- the Hellfire is the ultimate manifestation of the removal of divine protection through the creation's severing of that contract.
- Those who don't understand the severity of the contract with the Creator don't understand the severity of Hell.
- As for the proportionality of the punishment — God is within His rights to give consequences to those who break their contract with Him.
- The punishment of Hellfire is a consequence of severing the contract with the Creator,
- and it is justifiable for the Creator to remove His protection from those who breach the contract.
- The severity of the punishment is commensurate with the severity of the breach,
- which is not at all inextricably linked to time (thus temporal finiteness is irrelevant).
- Rather, this breach of contract is inextricably linked
- to a crime against the internal revelation instilled in our natural constitution,
- against the revelation available to us sent by God's Messenger ﷺ,
- against the Creator Who is beyond time itself Whose Message descended through the heavens to us.
- It is an ultimate redirection of all the attitudes and beliefs and actions
- that should be positioned towards the One Who allows them to be positioned in the first place,
- to other than Him — when they are His rights.
- This ultimate rupturing of the ultimate contract — the ultimate contract maintained by the Ultimate Provider —
- even for one second, has the ultimate consequences.
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