Doctrines of Islam 13 (Divine Justice and the Problem of Evil)

Qur'an

We will surely test you with somewhat of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth, lives, and fruits; and give good news to the patient, those who, when an affliction visits them, say, "Indeed we belong to God, and to Him do we indeed return." 2:155-156

Indeed God does not wrong anyone even to the extent of an atom's weight, and if it be a good deed He doubles its reward, and gives from Himself a great reward. 4:40

So whoever does an atom's weight of good will see it, and whoever does an atom's weight of evil will see it. 99:7-8

He, who created death and life that He may test you to see which of you is best in conduct. And He is the All-mighty, the All-forgiving. 67:2

It is He who has made you successors on the earth, and raised some of you in rank above others so that He may test you in respect to what He has given you. 6:165

We dispersed them into communities around the earth: some of them were righteous, and some of them otherwise, and We tested them with good and bad times so that they may come back. 7:168

Indeed We have made whatever is on the earth an adornment for it that We may test them [to see] which of them is best in conduct. 18:7

Every soul shall taste death, and We will test you with good and ill by way of test. 21:35

There are indeed signs in this; and indeed We have been testing. 23:30

Indeed We created man from the drop of a mixed fluid so that We may test him. So We made him endowed with hearing and sight. 76:2

Webpage Links

God and Evil 

Attribution of Evil to God?

Divine Benevolence & the Existence of Evil in the Universe

Book Excerpts

Justice of God by S. Rizvi

Divine Justice Shelf in al-Islam.org