God repelling some people by others

On al-Baqara 251 Sha'rawi reads the verse on God repelling some people by others as a general law that keeps the world in order. He holds that God repels evil through human hands ^{1 3}.

He holds that the world is guarded by a balance of forces: if one force ruled alone, error would spread. He names Persia and Rome as the great powers at the start of Islam and then lists powers of his own time ².

He says God repels corruption through His servants, as in the command to fight the disbelievers so that God punishes them through believers. A battle between two truths does not last, since there is only one truth; a battle is between truth and falsehood, or between two falsehoods ^{3 4}.

He compares the Hajj verse (22:40) with al-Baqara 251: hermitages for monks, churches for Christians, prayer places for Jews, mosques for Muslims. He holds that these places bind the creature to the Creator, and that if they were destroyed, pride would spread and the earth would be corrupted ^{5 6}.

The modern examples and the list of powers are Sha'rawi's own and have not been checked. The classical exegesis of the verse, the academic view and any non-Sunni view have not been checked.