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How will the injustice be repaid in the hereafter if a Muslim owes an injustice to a disbeliever, a polytheist, a Jew, or a Christian, and was unable to repay it in this world? Will the Muslim give from his good deeds or take from their sins, and what good would that do them when they are abiding eternally in Hellfire?

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Numerous religious texts affirm the recompense between servants on the Day of Judgment regarding injustices between them, and the wronged will take their right from the oppressor. If recompense occurs between animals, then it is even more fitting for it to occur between human beings. No text has been revealed regarding how a disbeliever will receive their right in the afterlife, but it could be by inflicting harm upon the oppressor, or by alleviating the punishment for the wronged disbeliever.

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