and the one who died as a child without islam and suffering from worship after reaching puberty is in a lower degree than the one who reached puberty and became muslim. so the one who died as a child will say o lord why did you delay me from my muslim brother who reached puberty and died? nothing befits your generosity except justice. you have prevented me from the advantages of that rank. if you had bestowed it upon me i would have benefited from it and it would not have harmed you. so how is that befitting of justice? so he will say to him on the claim of one who claims wisdom that he reached puberty and became muslim and suffered hardships of worship. so how does justice require equality between you and him? so he will say the child o lord you are the one who gave him life and death and it was necessary that you extended my life and brought me to the rank of independence and guided me to islam as you guided him but the delay in his life was the deviation from justice. so he says to him according to the claim of those who claim wisdom it was in your interest to kill you in your youth for if you had reached puberty you would have disbelieved and deserved the fire. so at that time the disbeliever who died after reaching puberty will be called from the depths of the fire and he will say o lord you knew about me that when i reached puberty i would disbelieve so why did you not kill me in my youth for i am content with the degree? the calamity in which the boy who yearned for the highest levels was brought down and at this point there is nothing left for the one who claims wisdom in the settlement except to stop answering and to be bold.
والذي مات طفلا من غير اسلام ومقاساة عبادة بعد البلوغ في درجة دون درجة الذي بلغ واسلم فيقول الذي مات طفلا يا رب لم اخرتني عن اخي المسلم الذي بلغ ومات ولا يليق بكرمك الا العدل وقد منعتني من مزايا تلك الرتبة ولو انعمت علي بها لانتفعت بها ولم تضرك فكيف يليق بالعدل ذلك فيقول له بزعم من يدعي الحكمة انه بلغ واسلم وتعب وقاسى شدائد العبادات فكيف يقتضي العدل التسوية بينك وبينه فيقول الطفل يا رب انت الذي احييته وامتنى وكان ينبغي ان تمد حياتي وتبلغني الى رتبة الاستقلال وتوفقني للآسلام كما وفقته فكان التأخير عنه في الحياة هو الميل عن العدل فيقول له بزعم من يدعي الحكمة كانت مصلحتك في إماتتك في صباك فإنك لو بلغت لكفرت واستوجبت النار فعند ذلك ينادى الكافر الذي مات بعد بلوغه من دركات لظى فيقول يا رب قد عرفت مني أني إذا بلغت كفرت فهلا امتني في صباي فإني قانع بالدرجة النازلة التي انزلت فيها الصبي المتشوق الى درجات العلا وعند هذا لا يبقى لمن يدعي الحكمة في التسوية الا الاننقطاع عن الجواب والاجتراء