Greetings from Morocco
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Peace supportpeacenotwar,
Was reading your post where you talked about your Pagan cult. You mentioned that they believe in Karma and that what good you do comes back to you one way or another. Well, this should prove true for islam as well where it is God who will see the good deeds and return good back to you. I believe strongly in the immediate presence of the Holy Spirit (God's spirit) in the world and that together with the angels this good 'Force' is coordinated to do good in the world. It may be that a good act from a Believer may also cause the strength of the spirit within ourselves to increase which will lead to other people (unknowingly perhaps?) to treat us differently due to the invisible Force of the Spirit.
In this regard the belief in Karma might not be so far off, while the term itself might be an invented one. We can often see the "Karma effect" for real when we start to become more reverent Believers.
Of course, a person with a good personality logically is better treated differently than one with a bad personality. But I still believe that the Holy Spirit affects the total change of a person, which can be interpreted as 'Karma'.
In my thread I made a while ago 'the Star Wars allegory' or 'the Game Allegory' I mentioned about Light Side points and this can be counted as equal to 'Karma' I think. To be with God is the same as being on the Light Side of the Force while living in the realm of Shaytaan is being on the Dark Side of the Force. Gaining Dark Side points will have adverse effects on the personal development and one will indulge in immoral, unrighteous and evil acts, such as described in Quran. Such ones will never be happy (and it seems those who fall to the Dark Side in Star Wars are not happy either).
God bless you
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Peace Man of Faith,
One thing I should have said earlier is that I do not believe Paganism is a cult. I know some may view things in this way, but it's a religion/a grouping of similar religions. Or we could just call it spirituality, I think cult has too much of a pejorative meaning.
The idea of karma can also differ and some beleve in the threefold law, that whatever one does comes back to them by the power of three. Although, many may not believe in that but just a general idea of karma in Wicca. I would agree, that karma as a concept can relate to the idea of ultimate justice in the Quran. Since karma occurs over lifetimes - at least that's the idea I came across, there could be different ideas out there as well - then it differs in that way from the Quran. In terms of justice in the Quran, as things are not served out in this life total justice will occur in the Hereafter. So some people experience bad in this life - then Messengers and believers did, but I would say it is wrong to say whether this is a punishment, as it can be a lesson in general. All good comes from Allah swt but even those real evil in the world today, serious corruption and so on can appear to have some 'good' but in the Quran it also says for such people who are like that, it can also be a test.
I would agree though, there is an overlap of ideas here.