The link between God's justice and the need for a precise accounting of men's deeds thus makes irrefutably clear the necessity for resurrection. In addition, certain crimes and evils are so extensive in their effects that they cannot be adequately punished in this world, with its limited timespan. Crimes are sometimes so grave that the punishment inflicted by men is not equal to the task of imposing on the criminal the punishment he deserves. He is so sunk in the mire of vice and injustice that he is incapable of learning lessons from the past or thinking of a better and more enlightened future. If despite all his crimes his soul were to be taken in just the same way as that of one of his victims, the punishment involved would be unjust and grossly unequal, for he would then have been punished simply for one of his victims and all his other crimes would remain unpunished.
Many crimes are, then, beyond the scope of worldly retribution.
If we wish to analyze matters more logically, we must look further, beyond this world. There is also the consideration that no authority in this world has the power to restore to men all the rights which have been violated. Similarly, the world does not have the capacity to reward virtue in a fitting and complete manner. When we attempt to assess the value of the unrelenting efforts that the pure and the virtuous expend in this world, which is full of trouble and pain, we realize that the rewards available here are very slight. No life remains for him in this world to enable him to reap the fruits of his devotion and self-sacrifice.