9وَأَقيمُوا الوَزنَ بِالقِسطِ وَلا تُخسِرُوا الميزانَAli UnalAnd observe the balance with full equity, and do not fall short in it.1By mentioning balance in three successive verses, the Qur’ān shows the importance attached to it. It clearly states that there is a very sensitive balance in creation and the relationships among its parts. The wonderful accord observed in the universe and its maintenance is due to this most sensitively computed balance. It is also indispensable to human life, both individually and socially. Its social manifestation is justice. With respect to human education and perfection, this balance requires that everything is given its due importance in life and that the basic faculties or impulses of anger, desire or appetite, and reason be trained, disciplined, and employed in order to develop them into the virtues of chivalrous courage, moderation and chastity, and wisdom (for a detailed explanation, see sūrah 2, notes 23, 39, and 113).