Its infinite capacity for evil will be transformed into an infinite capacity for good. It will acquire the value of the Most Excellent of Patterns (Ahsane Taqweem) and ascend to the highest of the high.

And so, O heedless Man! Look at Almighty Allah’s munificence and generosity! Although it would be justice to record one evil as a thousand and a single good deed as one or not at all, He records a single evil as one, and a single good deed as ten, and sometimes as seventy or seven hundred, or even sometimes as seven thousand. You will also understand from this Remark that to be sent to Hell, which is so dreadful, is retribution for the deed and pure justice, while to be sent to Paradise is pure generosity.

SECOND REMARK Man has two faces: one, concerning his ego, looks to the life of this World. The other, concerning worship and servitude to Allah, looks to eternal life.

In respect to the first face he is a wretched creature whose capital consists only of the following:

Of will he has only a partial power of choice like a hair; of power, a weak ability to acquire; of life, a fast dying flame; of a life-span, a fleeting brief spell; and of being, a swiftly decaying small body. Together with this, he is one delicate, weak individual out of the innumerable individuals of the numberless varieties of beings dispersed through the levels of the universe.

In respect to the second face and especially his impotence and poverty, which are turned towards worship, Man has truly great breadth and vast importance.