wassamaa'aa rafa'ahaa wa wada al meezaan
وَٱلسَّمَآءَ رَفَعَهَا وَوَضَعَ ٱلْمِيزَانَ
Word By Word:
wa: and
as-Samaa: The Heaven
rafa'ahaa: HE raised it
wa: and
wada: HE Has set up
al meezaan: the balance
Translation:
And the Heaven HE Raised and imposed balance
Ayah Tafseer:
The "balance of justice" in this verse is connected with "the Balance" in the next two verses, that men may act jusdy to each other and observe due balance in all their actions, following the golden mean and not transgressing due bounds in anything. But the Balance is also connected figuratively with the heavens above in three symbols:
(1) Justice is a heavenly virtue;
(2) the heavens themselves are sustained by mathematical balance; and
(3) the constellation Libra (the Balance) is entered by the sun at the middle of the zodiacal year
Source: Yusuf Ali Translations and Notes
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