Cause → Effect Atlas — Quranic Chains

The Quran reads the world as a 'pattern of causes and effects': patience → help → victory, gratitude → increase, arrogance → sealing of the heart, injustice → destruction, corruption → earthquake-famine, balance → heavens standing. 10 main chains across 3 layers (inner + social + cosmic); each link anchored in Quranic verses.

Cause → Effect Atlas←
Quranic Principle

“whoever does X, Y follows.”

— sunnatullah, the Quran's cosmic law

The Quran reads the world as a 'pattern of causes and effects.' Sunnatullāh is its cosmic rule: 'whoever does X, Y follows' — at inner (nafs), social, and cosmic levels. This page gathers these chains: each chain has 3-5 links + Quranic verse anchors. The aim: not a random 'if good is done bad also exists' but to see structural patterns that are insistently repeated.

Inner (Nafs)
Social
Cosmic
Classical Sources
er-Râzî
Mafātīḥ al-Ghayb
1149–1209 (Rey)
The theological frame of Quranic cause-effect chains; the 'sunnatullāh' discussion and ethical-theological linkages.
İbn Kayyim el-Cevziyye
Madārij al-Sālikīn
1292–1350
Deep analysis of inner chains (patience, gratitude, repentance, arrogance) from the Sufi perspective.
Muhammed Bâkır es-Sadr
al-Sunan al-Tarikhiyya fi'l-Qur'an
1935–1980 (Necef)
Reading of social + historical chains from a modern Quranic-sociology framework.
Seyyid Hüseyin Nasr
Man and Nature
1968
Modern environmental-theological reference for the Rūm 30:41 corruption chain.

Go Deeper — Related Tools

Sunnatullāh Atlas

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The cosmic-law layer of these chains — the divine pattern principle.

Nations Atlas

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Concrete historical records of the "injustice → destruction" chain.

Concept Network

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Ṣabr, shukr, ʿadl, mīzān — connection map of the concepts in these chains.