......why am I not surprised with these responses...
You guys simply cannot understand basic principles in life. Tell me this, is having a retarded born child "fair"?
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Fairness is based on the comparison of two cases being weighed against one another. Your question is not posed in a format such and such verses such and such ... is this fair? You have only provided one half of the comparison.
Had you said, 'a' gets more than 'b' is this fair? The answer would be it depends how much more value 'a' gave than 'b'.
Had you said the value of 'a' and 'b' was identical, then the answer would be then 'a' would get less tolerance and 'b' would get more tolerance.
Had you then said, both 'a' and 'b' had everything equal apart from this one thing. The answer would be that this scenario never exists because God is Just. Even to the point that if two identical people with identical lives with identical deeds, except one of them loves his mother slightly more, then the one who loves his mother slightly more will get that slightly more. We can't measure that love, but God can. If we leave this world in injustice the Herafter like omairhr said, is there to give everyone their dues. People with disadvantaged lives would get a bonus, but the people who had advantageous lives would be given scores based more so on merit.
OK, I think I see the point you were trying to make... Maybe I could add this to a little...
Imagine, two kids are playing one is form a poor family and the other is form a wealthy family a man comes along and gives some money to the kid from the wealthy family, the kid from the poor family steals the money from the kid form the rich family and justifies it by arguing he is poor and needs the money more so. So, we use simple logic and say how would Allah reason, there is a problem here, there is a paradox... Allah is the most merciful and the most just...
A merciful person would argue the money should go to the poor kid, regardless of the means which he required the money by, but a just person would say the money should go to the rich kid... Thus, if someone claims to be perfectly just and perfectly merciful there is a paradox here.
I think this is what the OP was trying to reason...
There is no paradox.
"Just" doesn't necessarily mean following the rules. For example, a just person doesn't necessarily tell the truth all the time. A just person does what is RIGHT, regardless of whether it involves lying or stealing or killing.
If two kids found a bag of marbles and went to mullah to divide.
What kind of mullah was that who instead of telling them that it's belong to someone else so you have to find that person and return him back or leave it where it was so that person will come back to find out.
That's what Allah told us to do when we find anything. Was Nasreddin mulla created by some kuffar who did totally opposite what Allah will not do that.
How could he someones amanat distribute to those kids. How could he distribute uneven Allah asked us to do barabari and Insaaf.
That home made is story is totally wrong. Next time ask me to make a story. I won't make a story with mistakes.
If Allah did "barabari and Insaaf" - then there would be NO rich, NO poor, No sickness, ALL wellness. Everyone would be EQUAL - that's barabri and Insaaf.
The mulla dividing the marbles unequally represents the TRUTH of ALLAH'S makings. HE wants things to be unequal so HE can test our patients, and test us how much we bow down to HIM. He wants us to see that today you are living a good life, tomorrow you may not. So always SHARE what you got. If he gave the same to everyone - no one would have to care about the other or BOW down to HIM.