Al-A'raf 8: On that Day, the scale is truth. Those whose scales weigh more (by good deeds), they are the ones who reach salvation.

A. Metin Saruhan · 9 August 2017 · Al-A'raf

Translation

On that Day, the scale is truth. Those whose scales weigh more (by good deeds), they are the ones who reach salvation.

Tafsir

He has sent people to the world as a test and to bear witness to the covenants He has made through their deeds. People receive rewards and sins for the deeds they do and the words they speak in the realm of property. When people pass on to the Hereafter, when the Day of Judgment comes, Allah (swt) will weigh the good deeds and good deeds that people have done in the Court-i Kübra, who will gather them together and then resurrect them. So whoever has done more good deeds and whose good deeds weigh heavily in the scale, and whoever is a Muslim, they will be saved.

Is the scale here the usual scale, or is it another measuring instrument in the sight of Allah? Allah is the Almighty. How is the evaluation of good deeds and good deeds, good deeds and sins, what are the measurements? Allah knows this. As far as He has informed us, good deeds and sins will be weighed. Whichever of these weighs heavier, the person will enter that side. For example, if the sin is too much, he will go to hell, and if the good deed is too much, he will go to heaven.

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Surah Al-A'raf, verse 8. On that day, it says, the weighing is true. The Mizan, it says. The scale. But this scale is not that scale. Weighing. It does not mean that a scale will be set up in the middle and good deeds weighed and sins weighed too. It is in a figurative sense. What you did is not put to (?); it is graded. It is graded by Allah Almighty. According to these grades, Allah Almighty also multiplies it from Himself. The good deeds; the sins, however, He leaves single. (?) He adds them up. One by one. The good deeds He adds up, multiplying and multiplying. 3, 5, 7, 10, 70, 100, multiplying like this.

And on top of that, from His mercy, He also gives you a (?) of what He gathered. Allah Almighty. Yes. On that day the weighing is true. That is, everyone's account will be settled — from what does a person understand it best? From a scale, from weighing: which is heavier, which is lighter. So if your good deeds, it says, weigh heavier — that is, the money you earned is 10,000 lira, say, the money you spent 3,000 lira: you are 7,000 lira in profit. So you are one for Paradise. You earned ten thousand lira, you spent fifteen thousand lira. You are five thousand lira at a loss. At a loss. You will pay the penalty for those five thousand lira.

Like this, you see. Weighing.

Some say, you know, someone will get ten tons of reward, twenty tons of reward. Allah forbid. Do not decide in Allah's place. These are ignorant words. So in the worldly realm, as a test, the covenants people gave, through the deeds they carried out, He sent them to hold as witness against themselves. In the worldly realm people, through the deeds they do and the words they speak, reward and sin earn. When people pass to the hereafter, when the Last Day comes, Allah Almighty, who people again gathers, brings together and then resurrects, at the Supreme Court will weigh the good and fine deeds people did, we wrote.

That is, He will evaluate. So whoever's deeds have more good and good deeds, and whose scale came out heavy, if this person is a Muslim, these will attain salvation. Salvation. Of course, the Muslims — non-Muslims' scales: even if they had far more good deeds than the sins they committed, their denying Allah, in that single respect — even if they had reward as vast as these worlds, that single denial outweighs it. That is why their rewards are scattered like carded cotton.

Is the scale here the scale we know? we ask. Or is it another measuring instrument in Allah's sight? Allah knows best, we wrote. How are the good and fine deeds, the rewards and sins evaluated? What are their measures? Allah knows that. As far as He has made known, rewards and sins will be weighed. Whichever of these comes out heavier, a person will go to that side. For example, if sin weighs heavier, he will enter Hell; if reward weighs heavier, he will enter Paradise, we wrote. Yes. Yes.