The last line of verse 160 of Sura VII of the Koran provides insight into the deep mysteries of the divine economy.
(« We divided them into twelve tribes—each as a community. And We revealed to Moses, when his people asked for water, “Strike the rock with your staff.” Then twelve springs gushed out. Each tribe knew its drinking place. We shaded them with clouds and sent down to them manna and quails,1 ˹saying˺, “Eat from the good things We have provided for you.” They ˹certainly˺ did not wrong Us, but wronged themselves. »
At a lower level of perception lies the entire retributive logic which our understanding is most often a prisoner of : an archaic conception, in the sense of superficial, and based on a strong bipolarization: Man / God.
After having related the errors of the people of Moses, while the patriarch received the tablets of the Law. God says, “They ˹certainly˺ did not wrong Us, but wronged themselves. « …
And thus opens up an understanding of the remuneration of acts from which it is, as an external provider (retributing institution), absent.
This last line represents a powerful breakthrough through the interaction patterns drawn before. It provides a key to (re)reading in the light of this internalization of retribution processes.
Also, this divine word also opens to contemplation.
God is not “wronged.”
God cannot be “wronged”,
God is always larger than the few inconveniences which one could imagine (by a mechanism of projection of human logic) that He is affected.

Maybe, if men realised God cannot be wronged, offended, then they would cease to wrong each other in their chosen « divine » name.
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