JUST BALANCE

Just Balance ~ 64 ~ JUST BALANCE It is the Merciful who has taught the Qur’an. He created man and taught him articulate speech. The sun and the moon pursue their ordered course. The plants and the trees bow down in adoration. He raised the heaven on high and set the balance of all things, that you might not transgress that balance. Give just weight and full measure. (The Qur’an 55:1-9) Both the creation of man and the revelation of divine guidance are expressions of God’s justice. By creating man, and in bestowing upon him the unique gift of speech — possessed by no other object in the universe God has given him the opportunity to attain a high position on earth and in the heavens, so that he may find for himself an eternal state of happiness. After the creation of man, the divine blessings culminated in the sending of the Prophet and the revelation of the divine Book. Man, in being