faith in divine existence, everything in which faith is required is included according to its degrees.
(Meeting and the Glad Tidings of Peace)
Then He said, “Their greeting on the day they meet Him is peace” [al-Ahzab 33:44]. That is, when the meeting occurs, the person is given glad tidings of safety and will never be miserable after the meeting.
God has men who meet Him in this worldly life and are given glad tidings of peace. Some meet Him when they die, some at resurrection, and some in the many different stations of the Resurrection. Some meet Him after entering the Fire and being punished there. Whenever the meeting occurs, God greets the person with peace, and after that meeting he is no longer miserable.
That is why He placed peace at the meeting without specifying a time, for the degrees of meeting Him differ. The last to meet Him is the believer in His existence alone. He said “the believers” without qualification, so we add no qualification.
His words, “and He has prepared for them a generous reward” [al-Ahzab 33:44], mean that each has a reward according to his faith. The least rewarded is the one who believes in God’s existence as God, and the degrees rise to those greater in faith.
(The Universality of Mercy and the Completion of Prayer)
God’s blessing is His mercy toward His creation. Hence He said, “and toward the believers He is merciful” [al-Ahzab 33:43]. He also said, “The All-Merciful established Himself upon the Throne” [Ta Ha 20:5]. The Throne encompasses all that exists in His kingdom. “My mercy encompasses everything” [al-Aʿraf 7:156], and His Throne encompasses everything. The Fire and those in it are among things, so mercy pervades every existent and the Real’s blessing is upon every existent.
Created beings are
