الموازينConceptThe Balance Of Deeds in the QuranالموازينEschatology7Verses4Surahs13Connections#512of 828

Key Verses

1. 7:8Al-Araf
   وَٱلۡوَزۡنُ يَوۡمَئِذٍ ٱلۡحَقُّۚ فَمَن ثَقُلَتۡ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ فَأُوْلَـٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلۡمُفۡلِحُونَ
   The weighing on that day is the true (weighing). As for those whose scale is heavy, they are the successful.
   In context

   The weighing of what they did on the Day of Judgement will be with justice, with no one being wronged in the least. Those whose good actions weigh more than their bad actions have succeeded in reaching the goal and being saved from what they feared.

2. 7:9Al-ArafWarning
   وَمَنۡ خَفَّتۡ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ فَأُوْلَـٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ خَسِرُوٓاْ أَنفُسَهُم بِمَا كَانُواْ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا يَظۡلِمُونَ
   And as for those whose scale is light: those are they who lose their souls because they used to wrong Our revelations.
   In context

   Those whose bad actions weigh more than their good actions are the people who have lost themselves, gaining their destruction on the Day of Judgement and being excluded from eternal bliss because of their rejection of Allah’s signs and verses.

3. 23:102Al-Muminun
   فَمَن ثَقُلَتۡ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ فَأُوْلَـٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلۡمُفۡلِحُونَ
   Then those whose scales are heavy, they are the successful.
   In context

   So whoever’s scales are heavy because of his good actions outweighing his bad actions, those are the successful ones, by attaining their objective and being saved from their fears.

4. 23:103Al-MuminunCommand
   وَمَنۡ خَفَّتۡ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ فَأُوْلَـٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ خَسِرُوٓاْ أَنفُسَهُمۡ فِي جَهَنَّمَ خَٰلِدُونَ
   And those whose scales are light are those who lose their souls, in hell abiding.
   In context

   And whoever’s scales are light because of his bad deeds outweighing his good deeds, those are the ones who have wasted themselves by doing that which is harmful to them, i.e., disbelief and sins, and leaving faith and good actions that were beneficial for them. They will be in the fire of hell forever and will not come out of it.

5. 101:6Al-Qariah
   فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتۡ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ
   Then, as for him whose scales are heavy (with good works),
   In context

   As for the one whose good deeds will outweigh his evil deeds.

6. 101:8Al-Qariah
   وَأَمَّا مَنۡ خَفَّتۡ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ
   But as for him whose scales are light,
   In context

   And as for the one whose evil deeds outweigh his good deeds.

7. 21:47Al-Anbiya
   وَنَضَعُ ٱلۡمَوَٰزِينَ ٱلۡقِسۡطَ لِيَوۡمِ ٱلۡقِيَٰمَةِ فَلَا تُظۡلَمُ نَفۡسٞ شَيۡـٔٗاۖ وَإِن كَانَ مِثۡقَالَ حَبَّةٖ مِّنۡ خَرۡدَلٍ أَتَيۡنَا بِهَاۗ وَكَفَىٰ بِنَا حَٰسِبِينَ
   And We set a just balance for the Day of Resurrection so that no soul is wronged in aught. Though it be of the weight of a grain of mustard seed, We bring it. And We suffice for reckoners.
   In context

   I shall establish fair scales for the rising people to weigh their deeds with. On that day, no soul shall be wronged by having its good deeds decreased, or bad deeds increased. Even if the weighed deed is minute, like the weight equal to a mustard seed, I shall include it. I Myself am sufficient to take the deeds of My servants into account.