Tafsir of Al-Anfal 8:51

Addressing the disbelievers in the second verse (51), it was said that the punishment of this world and that of the Hereafter was noth¬ing but what they had earned with their own hands. Since things done usually take their shape through the work of hands, therefore, men¬tion was made of hands. The sense is that the punishment coming to them was a direct outcome of their own deeds. And as for Allah Ta` ala, He was not the kind of authority who would bring injustice upon His servants and go about subjecting someone to punishment just for no reason.