ISLAM
JUSTICE AND POLITICS
Keywords:
ISLAM, JUSTICE, POLITICSAbstract
The holy Quran abounds with references to justice. Its importance is emphasised in a whole variety of human situations - in inter-personal relationships, within the family, within the community, in the interaction between communities and nations, in the interface between the human being and nature. There is justice to kith and kin, to the orphan, to the destitute, to the slave, to the wayfarer, to the needy. There is justice that is humanly attainable. There is justice which is only divinely possible.
References
Sura IV 58, 65, 105, 135;
Sura 29; & Sura1V11
A.Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an Translation & Commentary (Maryland, United States: Amana Corp., 1993)
Resurrection as a Manifestation of Divine Wisdom & Justice," Al-Tawhid Vol IX No, 2, November 1991 - January 1992 (Tehran, Iran)
Muhammad Hashim Kamali, 'The Limits of Power in an Islamic State," Islamic Studies Quarterly Journal vol. 28 no. 4, Winter 1989 (Islamabad, Pakistan: Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University) 329.
Ali Shariati, Sociology of Islam (Berkeley, United States: Mizan Press, 1979);
Marxism & Other Western Fallacies (Berkeley, United States: Mizan Press, 1980); & What iS to be Done (Houston, Texas, United States: The Institute for Research & Islamic Studies, 1986).
Suroosh Irfani, Revolutionary Islam in Iran (London: Zed Books, 1983)
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Mahmoud M. Ayoubv Islam: Faith & Practice (Ontario, Canada; The Open Press, 1989) 25.
H.K. Sherwani, Sttdies in Muslim Thought & Administration (Lahore, Pakistan: Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, 1970).
Omar Ibn Khatab's policies especially his economic reforms, see Irfan Mahmud Ra'ana, Economic System Under Untar The Great (Lahore, Pakistan: Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, 1977).
Concept of Islamic State (London: Islamic Council Of Europe, J979) 33.
Filsafat Ibn Khaldun, ed. Charles Issawi and trans. Ali Munawar (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1964)
Erskine Childers, "Amnesia & Antagonism," Mimeograph (1992) 1,
