If God Is Loving, Why Punish On Shirk?
You just focus on cruelty, why not focus on blessings? Please go through the thread shared by Umer sb in the link given above
I think you need to understand a simple point. We Muslims don’t worship God because we want a loving mother. We face a reality and when we are convinced of this reality, it has certain demands. The demands is that we fufill the rights of others, including God’s. If we don’t do this, we will be left behind and face great loss. And but most of us just want a big reward at the end when Allah asked us to take this trial (Qur’an 33:72). The fact that God ended up being generous is fortunate for us but it is nowhere said that He has to be an All-Loving God. There is no godly Geneva law for Him that He is held down by. Even the logic you are using to argue against Him, originates from Him, the concept of justice and morality comes from Him, He defines what is Just and what is Unjust to begin with. Now when a helpess creation understands their situation against an All-Powerful Being who has every right to do anything He wants with them, your first logical response is to submit to Him hence what Islam is. Now this Being could have done anything but choose to bargain instead. A list of righteous things to do and evil to avoid, will give you the great freedom in form of Paradise. Furthermore, Allah has not proven to be unjust or violated any rights in worldly life. The issue is that you fear that He will do injustice on Day of Judgment but I suppose we need to wait and see, but it is not an excuse to deny His rights today. He has proven enough to be wise and just on His actions in this life, we hope He will fufill His promise of Justice and satisfying us on Day of Judgment as well. Now it is a question of trusting Him. Even if you don’t trust Him to be Just then tell me, what are you going to do against Him, realistically speaking? Because if God is a tyrant, then He is the Invincible Tyrant that will win anyway.