Commentary
And when the indication advanced by His saying, the Most High: "And fulfill the measure and the weight with justice" [Al-An'am: 152], the verse indicates that true equality in the scale is unattainable and that it is the furthest of measures from equality. The text in His saying, the Most High: "And whoever comes with an evil deed will not be recompensed except by the like of it" [Al-An'am: 160], is based on the ability of the All-Powerful to do that. He concluded the previous verse with the encompassing of knowledge in the most eloquent manner that necessitates this in the highest forms. He also affirmed the matter and restricted it to His knowledge here, saying: "And the weight" with a true scale for the records of deeds or for the deeds themselves after they are depicted with what they deserve of forms or otherwise after Allah casts knowledge of it into the hearts. And perhaps it is a state from the 'noon' of greatness in the verse that preceded it, meaning: we do not suffice with what we recount but we weigh it so that it becomes evident to everyone that it is at the utmost of what can be from equality. Abu Hayyan and Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Nahwi al-Asfahani said in their grammatical analysis: (the weight) is the subject, "on that day" is an adverbial phrase in the accusative case, and "the truth" is the predicate of the subject. Al-Asfahani added and said: and the application of the source is weakened in it due to the definite article, and we have mentioned that it has come in the revelation: "Indeed, Allah does not like the public mention of evil except by one who has been wronged" [An-Nisa: 148] - it has ended. Meaning: and the weight on that day is restricted to the truth, which corresponds to reality in a true correspondence without any preference in it at all. The weight on that day does not exceed the truth to anything of falsehood by the addition of an atom nor its reduction nor anything less than that. It has been clarified that the aim of the surah is to urge adherence to the Book, which includes urging adherence to the Messenger and guidance to the Oneness and the ability to resurrect by clarifying the tremendous actions in the beginning of creation and the destruction of the past nations, indicating that whoever does not follow him and does not affirm the Oneness - the One who revealed it upon this method which cannot be attained, and the path which intellects and natures have stopped at, due to the evidence of His Oneness by the inability of others to His words and actions - is close to being hastened before the Day of Resurrection with a punishment like that of the previous nations and the past generations, along with what He has stored for him on that day of a bad outcome and the manifestation of the effects of anger.
And when He informed that the lesson is in the scale in a manner that appears to have no injustice in it whatsoever, it resulted in His saying: "So whoever's scales are heavy" meaning: they have been filled and they have weighed down as is customary in the world, "his scales" meaning: the weighed deeds, [meaning: his deeds] that are weighed. And perhaps he expressed it in this way to indicate that every deed is weighed individually so that one may strive to rectify it. "So those are" meaning: the high aspirations, "they are" [meaning: specifically] "the successful" meaning: those who are manifest in all their needs.
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