Hazrat Shaykh Abu Ja’far said that God had commanded us to be just, and He behaved with us in a manner that was a step ahead of Justice. This is called Tafuzzul (superlative of compassion).

The proof was in the fact that God had commanded his scribes to add ten merits for every single virtue executed by His servants in their personal files, whereas, a single vice should be treated as a single sin, and then promised that defendants should not be transgressed.

مَنْ جَاءَ بِالْحَسَنَةِ فَلَهُ عَشْرُ أَمْثَالِهَا وَمَنْ جَاءَ بِالسَّيِّئَةِ فَلَا يُجْزَىٰ إِلَّا مِثْلَهَا وَهُمْ لَا يُظْلَمُونَ

“Whoever brings a good deed, he shall have ten like it, and whoever brings an evil deed, he shall be recompensed only with the like of it, and they shall not be dealt with unjustly” (6:160).

Speaking in terms of Justice, a lone virtue could have been treated as a solitary act, just as it was for a single vice, but God’s compassion made it ten times more fruitful. The Prophet of God had thus said, “No one can enter Paradise on the strength of his or her acts alone, except with the grace of God.”