if it is said that no matter how much god is able to guide creation to the path of salvation and attainment of happiness sending messengers and appointing imams and he does not do that then this would be a harm to creation while there is no benefit to god almighty in this harm and it is extremely ugly and contradicts the descriptions of perfection in his wisdom and justice and it does not befit the divine attributes we say that this speech is flawed and a cover that the common person is deceived by and the diver in the sciences despises it and groups of the mutazila were deceived by it and the investigation of the way to respond to them is in the art of theology and i will now limit myself to one example that clearly shows that god almighty is not obligated in his attributes of perfection to look after the interests of his creation is that we suppose three children one of them died as a child one of them reached adulthood as a muslim and then died and the other reached adulthood and disbelieved and then died. god will reward each one according to what he deserves and he will establish justice so the one who reached adulthood and disbelieved will descend to the depths of hellfire and the one who reached adulthood and became a muslim will descend to the highest degrees.
فإن قيل مهما قدر الله على ارشاد الخلق الى سبيل النجاة ونيل السعادات بعثة الرسل ونصب الأئمة ولم يفعل ذلك كان إضرارابالخلق مع انتفاء المنفعة عن الله تعالى في هذا الإضرار وهو في غاية القبح المناقض لأوصاف الكمال من حكمته وعدله ولا يليق ذلك بالصفات الإلهية قلنا هذا الكلام مختل وغطاء ينخدع به العامي ويستحقره الغواص في العلوم وقد انخدع به طوائف من المعتزلة واستقصاء وجه الرد عليهم في فن الكلام وانا الآن مقتصر على مثال واحد يبين قطعا أن الله تعالى ليس يلزمه في نعوت كماله ان يرعى مصلحة خلقه وهو أنا نفرض ثلاثة من الاطفال مات احدهم طفلا وبلغ احدهم مسلما ثم مات وبلغ الآخر وكفر ثم مات فيجازي الله كل احد بما يستحقه فيكون مقيما للعدل فينزل الذي بلغ وكفر في دركات لظى والذي بلغ واسلم في درجات العلا