Furthermore, the annihilation of the human being after death, regardless of how he lived before it, makes His genesis futile, while what is futile is not issued by Allah; as He has said: ﴿أَفَحَسِبْتُمْ أَنَّمَا خَلَقْنَاكُمْ عَبَثًا وَأَنَّكُمْ إِلَيْنَا لَا تُرْجَعُونَ﴾[1]; “Did you then think that We had created you without any purpose and you would never be returned to Us?!” Therefore, those who deny the existence of the Hereafter cannot believe in the existence of Allah; because the existence of Allah necessitates the existence of the Hereafter; as those who deny the existence of Allah do not find any rational reason for their lives, nor do they achieve any result other than despair and futility; as Allah Almighty has said: ﴿وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِآيَاتِ اللَّهِ وَلِقَائِهِ أُولَئِكَ يَئِسُوا مِنْ رَحْمَتِي وَأُولَئِكَ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ﴾[2]; “And those who disbelieved in the signs of Allah and the meeting with Him, they have despaired of My mercy, and they will have a painful punishment”; because, in their supposition, if they are good-doers, they will die like evil-doers, and if they evil-doers, they will die like good-doers, and they will not necessarily benefit from their good deeds or get harmed by their evil deeds; considering that many good people died without any reward in the world, and many evil people died without any punishment in the world, and the suffering of those did not end in relief, nor the relief of these in suffering, and therefore, preferring the suffering resulting from good deeds to the relief resulting from evil deeds, even though all the wise agree on it, is foolishness.

[Obedience to Allah in what originates from Him]

As for what originates from Him, it means His commands and His prohibitions, which originate from His satisfactions and dissatisfactions; because due to His perfection, He is satisfied with good deeds and dissatisfied with evil deeds, while He does not need anything to be happy about achieving it or sad about losing it, but His servants, due to their being created, need to survive, and for their survival, they need perfection, and for their perfection, they need to do good deeds and abandon evil deeds, and He wants their perfection by virtue of His perfection; because the desire for perfection comes from perfection. Based on this, His satisfaction with good deeds and His dissatisfaction with evil deeds have not originated from His need, but rather from His perfection;