7 Preface وَالسَّماءَ رَفَعَها وَوَضَعَ الميزانَYusuf AliAnd the Firmament has He raised high, and He has set up the Balance (of Justice),1The “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.