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The 365 · Verses · Day 238 · Justice


Qur'an 4:127

وَيَسْتَفْتُونَكَ فِى ٱلنِّسَآءِ ۖ قُلِ ٱللَّهُ يُفْتِيكُمْ فِيهِنَّ وَمَا يُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْكُمْ فِى ٱلْكِتَـٰبِ فِى يَتَـٰمَى ٱلنِّسَآءِ ٱلَّـٰتِى لَا تُؤْتُونَهُنَّ مَا كُتِبَ لَهُنَّ وَتَرْغَبُونَ أَن تَنكِحُوهُنَّ وَٱلْمُسْتَضْعَفِينَ مِنَ ٱلْوِلْدَٰنِ وَأَن تَقُومُوا۟ لِلْيَتَـٰمَىٰ بِٱلْقِسْطِ ۚ وَمَا تَفْعَلُوا۟ مِنْ خَيْرٍ فَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ كَانَ بِهِۦ عَلِيمًا

They ask you, Prophet, for a ruling about women. Say: God Himself gives you a ruling about them. You already have what has been recited to you in the Scripture about orphan girls in your charge from whom you withhold the prescribed shares of their inheritance and whom you wish to marry, and also about helpless children. God instructs you to treat orphans fairly. He is well aware of whatever good you do. (Quran 4:127)

Svenska: De frågar dig om kvinnorna. Säg: 'Gud själv ger er besked om dem... Gud har givit föreskrifter om hur ni skall behandla de föräldralösa med rättvisa: Gud vet vad ni gör av gott.' (Koranen 4:127)

A reflection to carry

Look at the closing of this long Justice arc Allah wove from Day 214 through today. He opened with the cradle (2:233). He demanded justice against oneself (4:135). Toward enemies (5:8). On the scales (17:35). 'Allah loves the just' (5:42). Then He took us through contracts (2:282), witnesses (5:106), the cosmic mīzān (55:7-9), Shuʿayb's marketplace (11:85, 26:181-182), the orphan's wealth (6:152), and the conditional permissions of marriage (4:3). Twenty-five days of justice teaching. And He closes today with 4:127: a verse about orphans and women, ending with the simplest, gentlest seal: 'wa mā tafʿalū min khayr fa-inna Allāha kāna bihi ʿalīmā.' Whatever good you do, Allah is aware of it. Ya akhī, ya ukhtī, this is mercy after warning. Allah did not end the arc on threat; He ended it on encouragement. As if to say: every gram of justice you give to an orphan, every clean transaction you complete, every truthful word you speak about an absent person, every gentle hand on a vulnerable life, I know about it. I am al-ʿAlīm. Nothing slips by. So do not give up. The just act in private is still recorded. The full measure given without recognition is still weighed. The clean dealings nobody knows about are still in Your file. He sees. He knows. He records. Live the next chapter of your life with that as your daily soundtrack.

Read the longer reflection

Yā Rabb, You closed the longest Justice cluster of this entire calendar with a sentence that should melt the chest of every believer. 'Wa mā tafʿalū min khayr fa-inna Allāha kāna bihi ʿalīmā.' Whatever good you do, Allah is aware of it. After all the warnings about tilted scales, after the threats of destruction over corrupt measures, after the conditions placed on every permission, You closed with the gentlest seal: He sees the good. He knows the small act. He records the unseen mercy. Ya Allāh, I have read too many warnings to forget the closing mercy. The believer who fears Your judgment without trusting Your knowledge of his small goods will collapse under guilt. You did not want collapse; You wanted reform. So You sent the mercy at the end of the arc. To say: the justice you are practicing, even the small, even the unwitnessed, even the parts I asked of you that you have struggled with, I see it all. Nothing of khayr is invisible to Me. Forgive me, ya Rabb, for the times I performed justice and despaired when no one noticed. The honest invoice I sent that no client praised. The full disclosure I made that lost me a deal. The orphan I helped whose family never thanked me. The truth I told in a family meeting that made me unpopular. The fair share I gave a sibling that they took for granted. Each one You named, even before I performed it: wa mā tafʿalū min khayr fa-inna Allāha kāna bihi ʿalīmā. So I close this Justice arc, ya Allāh, with the simplest commitment I can make: from this day, I will do the just thing because You see, and because I trust that You see, and because the seeing is enough. I do not need the applause. I do not need the visible reward. I have al-ʿAlīm. Āmīn ya ʿAlīm ya Satīr.

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