As far as the constitutive elements of Justice and its extent and scope is concerned, we cannot sum it better than in a few verses of the Holy Quran which provides-
O ye who believe! Stand out firmly for justice, as witnesses to the Almighty, even as against yourselves, or your parents, or your kin, and whether it be against rich or poor: for He can best protect both. Follow not the lusts of your hearts, lest ye swerve, and if ye distort justice or decline to do justice, verily He is well-acquainted with all that ye do.
Al-Quran 4:135
O ye who believe! stand out firmly for the Almighty, as witnesses to fair dealing, and let not the hatred of others to you make you swerve to wrong and depart from justice. Be just: that is next to piety: and fear him; For He is well-acquainted with all that ye do.
Al-Quran 5:8
They are fond of listening to falsehood, of devouring anything forbidden. If they do come to thee, either judge between them, or decline to interfere. If you decline, they cannot hurt thee in the least. If you judge, judge in equity between them. For He loves those who judge in equity.
Al-Quran 5:42
And these plainly written few verses of wisdom on justice certainly appear more forceful, resplendent, and magnificent to me than the combined strength of thousands of legal jargons written in a book of modern jurisprudence running into thousands of pages.
Works cited
- ICCPR (ohchr.org)
- George H. Smith and David Gordon, John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty (libertarianism.org)
- Michael J Sandel, Justice: What’s the right thing to do?
- Mari J. Matsuda, A Feminist Critique of Rawls’ Theory of Justice, New Mexico Law Review
- Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty
- BR Ambedkar (The Scroll)
- Stephen’s Critique of Mill’s Idea of Liberty, OLL
- Holy Quran (Yusuf Ali Translation)
