(Qist). The qist is the state possessed by existence. Were Allah to drop this Just Scale from His Hand for even an instant the entire cosmos would be utterly annihilated. In the same way as Allah keeps hold of the Just Scale, so too does His Slave hold tightly to the Scale of the Law which Allah established as the means by which man can attain to Knowledge, Felicity, Gentleness and Mercy in this world and in the Hereafter.