The attribute of stratagem and mockery in relation to Allah, and that it is by way of retribution

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, how authentic is this statement, may Allah preserve you, that the attributes of stratagem and mockery in relation to Allah the Exalted are not among the attributes, but were mentioned by way of retribution, as in His saying, the Exalted: and His saying: Did anyone from the three blessed generations say this?

Answer:
It is from retribution; it is from recompense. Allah does not plot except against one who plots against Him or plots against His awliya (close friends of Allah). It is from retribution, correct. And He does not mock except one who mocks His awliya. So it did not come except in response to the servant. If the servant does these things, then Allah recompenses him with retribution from where he does not expect it, and it is justice from Him, Glorified and Exalted is He. It is a sin from the created being and justice from Allah. This is the difference between the stratagem of Allah and the stratagem of the created being. And Shaykh al-Islam (may Allah have mercy on him) spoke definitively about these matters in his book *Al-Radd 'ala al-Razi fi Bayan Talbis al-Jahmiyyah* (The Refutation of al-Razi in Exposing the Deception of the Jahmiyyah), which is currently being printed. You will read it in it, if Allah wills, and you will know these matters.