Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 77
— Part I 76 perfected you and fashioned you with justice and shaped you into so many different forms of perfect balance (see S u rah al-Infi ta r; Ch. 82: Vs. 7-9). Man of that age probably wondered as to why the Holy Quran had used the word ‘Adalaka ( ) to describe balance for the creation and structure of mankind. No previous book of philosophy or religion had described the creation of man in such clear terms. Balance and Consciousness It is interesting to note how Quranic expressions used in different places are intricately correlated. For instance, the phenomenon of balance is prevalent in all earthly objects. While ‘Adl is used to describe the principle of justice operative among human beings, this does not mean that man is not Mauz u n. ‘Adl encompasses Mauz u n as well as M i z a n, and also has the connotation of conscious realisation of balance and justice. Hence the question of ‘Adl indicates a far more advanced stage of balance with the added factor of consciousness. Man is described in the Holy Quran as the one who is created on the principle of ‘Adl, which puts him at the highest order in the grand Heavenly plan of justice and makes him most outstanding among all of God’s creatures. From the beginning, the principle of justice played a completely unconscious role in the form of the laws of nature. At a later stage, when evolution of the universe reached the threshold of life, the unconscious