Surah Ar-Rahman 55:9
سُورَةُ الرَّحۡمَٰن · Medinan · Verse 9 of 78
وَأَقِيمُوا۟ ٱلْوَزْنَ بِٱلْقِسْطِ وَلَا تُخْسِرُوا۟ ٱلْمِيزَانَ
Translation
weigh with justice and do not fall short in the balance.
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'And establish weight in justice, and do not skimp the Balance.' al-Saadi and Ibn Ashur note the startling turn to the concrete: dropped right among the sun, moon, and heavens is a plain command about fair weighing, give full measure, do not shortchange. The honesty of a transaction is placed beside the running of the cosmos. Ask yourself: I would never expect a verse about the majesty of the heavens to suddenly be about not cheating on a scale. Yet here small, everyday fairness is treated as cosmic business, a thumb on the scale is a crack in the order of the universe. Where am I 'skimping the balance' in the tiny ways that feel too small to matter, the shaved truth, the withheld effort, the quietly unfair deal?
Grounded in classical tafsir: al-Saadi, Ibn Ashur, al-Biqa'i.
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