The Cosmic Judge

الْحَكَمُ

Al-Ḥakam The Judge

أَلَيْسَ اللَّهُ بِأَحْكَمِ الْحَاكِمِينَ

Is not Allah the most conclusive of all judges

Surah At-Tīn (95:8)

Intention

Today, I will review my deeds from this past month and prepare corrections before Ramadan.

Reflection

Al-Ḥakam at cosmic scale judges between night and day, between seasons, between life and death. Every sunset is a verdict. Every spring is a ruling. The natural order is His courtroom, and every law of nature is His decree. In Shaʿbān, preparing for Ramadan means preparing for accountability, reviewing your deeds before the sacred month arrives, as a lawyer reviews a case before trial.

On this verse

The last verse of Surah At-Tīn, a rhetorical question that closes the surah about human dignity and judgement. Of course He is.

Du'a

ʿĀishah asked: what is an easy account? He said: that He looks at your record and overlooks. That is the easy account.

Hadith

ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (may Allah be pleased with him) said: 'Take account of yourselves before you are taken to account, and weigh your deeds before they are weighed for you.'

Attributed to ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (Sunan at-Tirmidhī, commentary)