attends to his servants' beneficial purposes so that the name of mastery may remain upon him. Were the possession to perish, the owner's name would perish insofar as he is an owner. Even if the entity remained, it would remain stripped of its ruling.
Things have benefit only through their rulings, not through their entities, yet their rulings occur only through their entities. Their entities need their rulings, and their rulings need their entities and the entities of those over whom they rule. There is nothing but ruling and entity, and nothing but one in need and what is needed.
﴿All plotting belongs to God; He knows what every soul earns﴾ [al-Raʿd 13:42] [al-Raʿd 13:42]. He brought ‘every,’ a particle of comprehensiveness, encompassing every soul and leaving nothing out in this setting. ﴿The unbelievers will know﴾—whoever had this knowledge veiled from him within this worldly life—﴿to whom belongs the final outcome of the abode﴾ within the other abode, where the covering is removed from the eyes.
One who was ignorant then knows. One who knew it here within this worldly life excels him: they are the people of glad tidings. Everyone who realizes an affair accords with what he has realized.
Whoever determines sustenance has measured,
And sustenance is not particular to creatures' state.
Its ruling pervades, encompassing us
And Himself; consider, and see what you see.
Each has fed, and through it has stood within
His existence, truly, without fabrication.
(Sahl's Answer concerning Sustenance)
