Surah Ar-Rahman 55:7
سُورَةُ الرَّحۡمَٰن · Medinan · Verse 7 of 78
وَٱلسَّمَآءَ رَفَعَهَا وَوَضَعَ ٱلْمِيزَانَ
Translation
He has raised up the sky. He has set the balance
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'And the sky He raised, and He set the Balance.' al-Razi notes the deliberate pairing that runs through the Surah: earlier the Qur'an (guidance), and here the mizan (justice), the two pillars on which everything rests. The same act that raised the heavens 'set the Balance', binding cosmic order and moral justice into one fabric. Ask yourself: I think of physics and ethics as separate departments, the way the universe is versus the way I ought to act. This verse fuses them: the God who balanced the heavens also set a Balance I am meant to keep. Justice is not a human invention layered onto a neutral universe; it is woven into the same order that holds up the sky. Am I living in tune with that Balance, or against its grain?
Grounded in classical tafsir: al-Razi, Ibn Ashur, al-Saadi.
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