Moderation and its Criterion from the Perspective of the Qur'an with Emphasis on Al-Mizan

Moderation in Islam has been considered as a value concept. Such a concept can be misunderstood or misused without defining and recognizing its limits and boundaries. The present study seeks to study the Quran's attitude toward the phenomenon of moderation and its criterion with a semantic approach. The review the Quran verses shows that although there is no word for moderation in the Quran, words and phrases such as justice, truth of religion, intention, economy and endurance, in some Quranic applications, convey the concept of moderation; on the contrary, words like exaggeration, cruelty, oppression, and prodigality have a semantic contrast. Semantically examining these words, it is achieved that in the Quran, words equivalent to moderation, have a deeper connection with more fundamental concepts such as monotheism, right and justice. From the perspective of the Quran, the criterion and boundary of moderation, is commitment to monotheism, observing the right and justice, and not going out of the direct righteousness of God's servitude.