“He said, ‘What prevented you from prostrating when I commanded you?’ He said, ‘I am better than him. You created me from fire and created him from clay.’ (12)”

“And whoever’s scales are light—it is they who have lost themselves because they used to wrongfully reject Our signs”—that is, they denied them.

When death approached Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him, he said in his counsel to Umar ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him: “The scales of those whose scales are heavy on the Day of Resurrection will be heavy only because they followed the truth in this world, despite its being burdensome upon them. And it is only right that a Balance upon which the truth is placed tomorrow should be heavy. The scales of those whose scales are light on the Day of Resurrection will be light only because they followed falsehood in