If people saw the truth of the matter as it is, they would realize the fragility of their reliance on reasons, and all the displays of strength they believed were managing their lives would fall from their eyes. They would understand that guidance isn't a product of the mind, nor the result of experience, nor the fruit of human skill; rather, it is purely God's choosing. He guides whom He wills by His wisdom and leads astray whom He wills by His justice. There is no guide for whom God has led astray, nor is there anyone to mislead whom God has guided.

The Prophet ﷺ said:

«Indeed, God created mercy on the day He created it, a hundred mercies, and He withheld ninety-nine mercies with Him, and sent into His creation one mercy…»

Here, understanding halts before a meaning that cannot be encompassed:

• Every warmth in a mother's heart, every tear of compassion, every tenderness that comes from a person's chest for another… is nothing but a weak trace of that 'single mercy' that has been spread in this world.

• Every escape from doom, every cover after disgrace, every door that opens after being closed, every repentance after failure… is nothing but drops from an inexhaustible divine mercy.

And with this single mercy, the balance of all life is upheld, and all existence is held together, between humans, jinn, and creatures.

So how about when the other ninety-nine manifest on the Day of Judgment?

Here, the mind stands before a question it cannot answer: fitting for the station:

How much does God love His servants?

God's love is not a feeling like that of creation, nor an emotion that changes, nor a tendency that is affected, rather it is an absolute mercy that precedes existence, based on complete knowledge, encompassing the servant in all his conditions in weakness before strength, in sin before obedience, then gently draws him back.

• The love of people fluctuates with circumstances, weakens with mistakes, and vanishes with absence.

• As for God's love: it is unwavering, not canceled by sin, nor extinguished by shortcomings, but He can make the very act of falling a path to rising, and turning from failure the beginning of salvation.

However, God has established fixed laws in His creation, a justice that does not wrong anyone, and an accounting that is never absent and a reality that does not delay. He runs on the servants in this world before the Hereafter whatever He wills for a profound wisdom; as a reminder, or a purification, or a hidden mercy that only those who turn back to Him can grasp.

Thus, whenever a person thinks they have grasped God's mercy, it becomes clear that they have only touched a tiny fraction, and what is with God is greater than all imagination, wider than all understanding, and more exalted than anything human minds can comprehend.

Glory be to Him, how great He is.