concept

Mīzān

Beliefs & concepts

The named Islamic scales that weigh deeds at judgment. Not hisab as the reckoning process alone, and not psychostasis as Egyptian or Greek soul-weighing alone.

Also known as Mizan · Al-Mizan

Islam

  • Mīzān appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an names the mīzān — balance/scale — in creation and in the weighing of deeds. Islamic balance-speech in that revelation, not balance as the English already-walked label alone.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)

    M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).