these records?” He will then be told, “You will not be wronged in the least.” The card will then be placed in one pan of the scale and the remaining deeds in the other; the card will outweigh them and cause the scale to tip.” (1)

It may be answered that this is, in reality, a weighing of deeds, because the records are heavy or light only according to the deeds they contain.

It may also be said that deeds are what are generally weighed, though the records of deeds may also be weighed.

However, the preponderant view, and that held by the majority, is that it is the deed that is weighed.

“And magnify their reward on his account; join him with the righteous predecessors among the believers; place him in the care of Abraham; and, by Your mercy, protect him from the punishment of Hellfire.”

His statement, “And magnify their reward on his account,” means: make their reward immense. There is a grammatical question here: he said, “their rewards,” even though the possessive pronoun refers to two people. Why did he not say, “Make their two rewards great on his account”?

The answer is that, in the most eloquent Arabic usage, when something is ascribed to two people, the plural form is used first in preference, then the singular, and then the dual—unless there is a particular reason to use the dual, singular, or plural. Allah the Exalted says:

“If you two repent to Allah, then your hearts have certainly inclined.” [al-Tahrim: 4]

Although they have only two hearts, as Allah the Exalted says:

“Allah has not made for any man two hearts within his body.” [al-Ahzab: 4]

He did not say, “then your two hearts have inclined,” nor did He say, “then your heart has inclined,” because the plural is more eloquent.

His statement, “Join him with the righteous predecessors among the believers, and place him in the care of Abraham,” means: with the young children of the believers who passed on before, for young children