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The 365 · Verses · Day 230 · Justice


Qur'an 55:7

وَٱلسَّمَآءَ رَفَعَهَا وَوَضَعَ ٱلْمِيزَانَ

He has raised up the sky. He has set the balance. (Quran 55:7)

Svenska: Han har välvt himlen över er och Han har gett den rätta vikten dess mått. (Koranen 55:7)

A reflection to carry

Read the verse and feel the scale of it. Wa al-samāʾa rafaʿahā: He raised up the sky. The infinite ceiling you stand under was lifted by Him. Wa waḍaʿa al-mīzān: and He set the balance. Allah linked, in one breath, the architecture of the heavens and the architecture of justice. Why? Because both are His. Both rest on precise calibration. The orbit of the planets has no margin for error and neither does the mīzān of His judgment. The same God whose hand keeps the moon from crashing into the earth is the God whose hand records your every weighted choice. Ya akhī, ya ukhtī, sit under the sky tonight and let the verse settle. The cosmos is the visible mīzān. Your daily life is the invisible mīzān. If Allah were to allow corruption in either, both would collapse. Star-fields. Family disputes. Both are held by the same balance. So when you face a small temptation to tilt the scale this week (a tax form, a recommendation letter, a story told about a colleague), remember: He who raised the sky is the One you would be transgressing.

Read the longer reflection

Yā Rabb, You linked the sky and the scale in one breath. As if to say: I am the engineer of both. The orbit of every star and the orbit of every word about your neighbor are calibrated by Me. The gravity that holds the galaxies and the gravity that records each gram of honesty are My laws. Wa al-samāʾa rafaʿahā, wa waḍaʿa al-mīzān. Ya Allāh, the believer who can see the sky cannot pretend the mīzān is theoretical. The same precision that put the moon at the perfect distance for our tides is the same precision that records the difference between a slightly inflated price tag and an honest one. The same engineering that placed the sun ninety-three million miles away to neither freeze us nor burn us is the same engineering that knows the difference between a balanced word and a weighted slander. Forgive me, ya Rabb, for every time I treated the mīzān as soft because the sky is silent. The silence of the sky is the patience of its Builder, not His absence. He raised it. He still holds it. And He has not closed the books on my scale just because I cannot see Him watching. Ya Allāh, make me a believer who lives under the sky as if I lived under the mīzān, because I do. Every transaction. Every conversation. Every text. Every glance at another's wife. Every dirham given and received. All weighed by the same hand that holds the firmament. Āmīn ya ʿAlīm bi-l-asrār wa al-akhfā.

A verse, a healing, and a Sunnah, every morning.

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