The Weighing, the Record, and the Questioning on Judgment Day
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- What is principally affirmed by “The weighing on that Day will be true”?
- What does the definition of mīzān as “that by which measures of deeds are known” mean?
- When would the objection from deeds being accidents establish the impossibility of weighing?
- Which explanation addresses how nonphysical deeds may be weighed?
- What does affirming a real balance not entail concerning Allah’s knowledge?
- What is the sound approach to the dispute between literal and figurative weighing?
- How should reports about the two pans and a tongue of the balance be handled?
- What is primarily expressed by heaviness in the phrase “whose scales are heavy”?
- What is the disputed issue concerning weighing for a disbeliever?
- What caution is required in relating the people of al-Aʿrāf to equal scales?
- What question arises from the singular and plural expressions for the balance?
- What would justify adopting an unusual historical identification of the balance?
- What does the report of the small card outweighing the scrolls illustrate?
- How can weighing occur although Allah gains no new information from it?
- What does the book recording people’s obedience and disobedience signify?
- What follows about divine knowledge from the recording angels?
- What outcome is associated with receiving the book in the right hand?
- What is signified by records given in the left hand and behind the back?
- What does “manshūran” convey regarding the record?
- Why does the existence of a record not eliminate questioning?
- What is the problem with imposing a necessary humanly discoverable purpose upon Allah for records and weighing?
- Which combination belongs to the report of a believer’s private reckoning?
- What is the relevant distinction between public exposure and a believer’s private reckoning?
- What is the main answer to “Why question people if Allah already knows?”
- How can verses affirming and negating questioning be reconciled?
- Which distinction between weighing, records, and questioning is correct?
- Not knowing the complete modality of the balance is not equivalent to denying that weighing occurs.
- The report of the card means all religious duties and responsibility for sins are entirely abolished.
- Recording by angels does not imply that Allah was unaware of deeds before they were written.
- Because Allah already knows everything, questioning a person on Judgment Day is logically impossible.