Romans 2:6 Meaning Who “will Pay Back to Everyone According

Actions are judged by the intentions behind them: what you meant is what counts The Prophet said an act is worth whatever drove it. Two people can pay the same bill, one buying admiration and one just wanting it handled, and nobody outside can tell the difference. So a person can look back on years of good behavior without knowing its worth, since the motive underneath is what gets weighed.

Riyāʾ: Doing good so people will see it Al-Ghazali treated this as the quiet ruin of otherwise fine deeds. The tell is small: a flicker of disappointment when nobody mentions the good thing, or extra effort once the right person walks in. Someone working mainly for an audience has already collected in applause, and nothing is left over to hand in later.

Muḥāsaba: Going over your own accounts Al-Ghazali described sitting down at day's end like a shopkeeper going through the books. Most people avoid this because they suspect what they will find, and a vague sense of being decent is more comfortable than a list. Anyone who does it stops guessing about themselves, because the day comes back in specifics and the small slips finally get named.

Your own deeds, counted up and handed back to you: no one else to blame The Prophet passed this on as God's own words. The comfort of pointing at circumstances, a bad family, a rough run of luck, thins out under it. For anyone who has done quiet good with nobody keeping track, that comes as relief; for anyone counting on excuses, it closes a door.

Istiʿdād: What a person is ready to receive Ibn Arabi held that the giving from God never stops and never varies, while what each person can hold does. A cup and a bucket left out in the same rain end up with different amounts, and neither one is being cheated. Years of choices slowly set the size of the container, so the moment of receiving shows what was built rather than deciding it.