Establishing Justice in Everyday Lives By: Nadira Ansari
In
simple words, justice is defined as fairness and peace. A person who embodies justice treats everyone fairly, just as they would like to be treated. On a larger scale justice is dispensed by a Court of Law. Social justice as upheld by a just court is grounded on the notion that everyone deserves equal economic, political, and social opportunities, irrespective of race, gender or religion. There are four types of justice: commutative, distributive, social and legal. If you observe the system of the earth, you will find that the Creator of the universe has founded it upon justice. The infinite stars and planets that revolve in space, the magnificent forces that are working this world, and the uncountable beings and things that are found on this Earth - among all these there is a high standard of justice and balance. Without these, the world would cease to function. The nature of this requires that the inhabitants of this world stay within their limitations and do not disturb this balance.
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Allah SWT in Surah Ar-Rahman says, “The sun and the moon [move] by precise calculation, And the stars and trees prostrate. And the heaven He raised and imposed the balance. That you not transgress within the balance. And establish weight in justice and do not make deficient the balance,� (Qur’an, 55:9). There is a wonderful law that the stars and planets follow that allows them to rotate without collision. The system of the world is set in a way that time, date, days, crops, weather, and the rising and setting of the sun and the moon are all following the same pattern and there has been no change since the beginning of time. The infinite life that is prevailing only exists because the distance between the earth, the sun, and the moon has been set to a certain distance, and the increase and decrease in these have all been pre-measured and fixed in a way that any slight variation in them would make life impossible. The balance Allah has created allows the world to function seamlessly
