FIFTH SECTION

ENUMARATING SUPERIORITIES OF JUSTICE

In this section we will explain the meaning of justice. Justice is the most honorable one among the virtues. A just man is the best of all men. Justice means harmony and equality. Two things would be equal to each other either through their own self or through their attributes. They are united with each other with respect to similar parts of each one. Therefore, justice rises out of oneness and unity. Oneness is the most honorable attribute and most honorable state because all existing beings became existent through One Being. Every unity that exists in the universe looks like the only real One Being. As every existent being became existent because of that One Being, similarly, every oneness is because of that Oneness. With respect to the subject of measurement and comparison, the most honorable and valuable outcome is equality. Even, the problem of equality is being studied extensively and in more detail in music. Therefore, justice is the most honorable among all goodness. Justice means to be in the middle. It is wrong to call one as just if he has departed from the middle. At three instances justice must exist:

1) While dividing a property for distribution, it must be done justly.

2) It is a must to deal justly during trade.

3) It is a must to do justice during application of punishment. For example, if one acts such a way to spread fear on others, that person has to be punished same way. [But this punishment will be imposed on him by the government. If one is attacked by others, one should not try to take the justice into one's own hand but instead should inform authorities. Muslims both follow the orders of Islam and the laws of the state and do not commit crime.] When justice prevails over a land, everyone lives without fear. Therefore, justice means fearlessness.

What is justice? It is very difficult to determine the meaning of this concept through human intelligence. For this reason, Allahu ta'ala by pitying His human creatures sent a yardstick for justice in order to protect the countries. Through this divine yardstick it became easy to measure justice. This yardstick is the religions brought by the prophets. Islam is also called as "Honor of the Divine." Today and for all times to come until the Doomsday, the only yardstick which is ordered for us to use is the yardstick which is sent to Muhammad, peace be upon him. Besides this afore said yardstick, Allahu ta'ala sent a second yardstick. The second one is the judge who rules over the justice system. It is necessary to have a judge because human beings are created to live a social life. They have to mix with each other, help one another and live together. Animals are not created to have a civilized life. In other words, they do not have to live together in cities. But human beings are created weakly as far as their animal powers are concerned. For example, they cannot eat raw meat like wild animals do. It is necessary to obtain and prepare nutrition, clothing and shelter. In other words, they need crafts. Therefore, they are in need of thinking, researching, investigating, experimenting and laboring. That means science, technology and crafts are necessary for human beings because of their nature of creation.

[Islam encourages and orders us to occupy ourselves with science, technology, ethics, and work. Britons and communists basely slander Islam by saying that Islam makes people lazy and slows down the working life. They trap some base people from the Islamic countries by either giving them money or by helping them to get a good position or rank in the society and then these poor creatres become slaves of them and repeat the same phrases. There are many hadiths and verses in Qur'an which encourages and promotes science, knowledge, and working as well as praising those who work. These base and immoral slanders look like trying to cover the sun with mud. Britons are attacking Islam insidiously. They are trying to destroy Islam from within. They are destroying and annihilating Islamic knowledge and Islamic books in order to deceive the youth easily by their lies. They established "Department of Colonies" in London for the purpose of attacking Islam. They prepared treacherous plans and trained thousands of spies there. They, by spending millions of dollars and weaponry, by tricking and trapping and by getting the cooperation of the ignorant and degenerate religious men Muhammad bin Abdulwahhab of Najd and Muhammad bin Su'ud who was the Amir of Dar'iyya, established the "Wahhabi" bidat group. They destroyed the Ottoman State from within, the state which was the protector and police of the Muslims. For more information please read the book The confessions of a British Spy published by Hakikat Kitabevi, a branch of Waqf Ikhlas.

Abdurrashid Ibrahim effendi, may Allahu ta'ala be pleased with him, in the second volume of his Turkish book Alam-i Islam which was published at Istanbul in 1328 [1910 A.D.], in a chapter called "The animosity of Britons toward Islam", says: it is the first priority and thought of the Britons to eliminate the religious state "Hilafat-i Islamiyya". They started the Crimean war and he;ped Turks over the war. This was a trick for them in order to destroy the religious state "Hilafat". The Paris peace agreement demonstrates this trick. [They demonstrated their animosity in the secret articles of Lozan peace agreement signed in 1923.] Every kind of disaster that came upon the Muslims always came from the Britons no matter under what type of curtain they are covered and hidden with. The main political aim of British politics is to destroy Islam. The reason for this policy is because of their fear of Islam. In order to deceive Muslims, they are using the persons who sell their consciences. They introduce these persons as Islamic scholars and great personalities. In short and in essence the greatest enemies of Islam are the Britons. Abdurrashid Ibrahim effendi, died in Japan in 1363 Hijri. [1944 A.D.]

Does Islam ever hinder progress of science, technology and work? Human beings are in need of everything. They have to work in order to prepare means which would satisfy their needs. These means are science, crafts and laboring. It is not possible for every individual to learn all the crafts he needs. Therefore, a division of work and crafts automatically materializes and some learns this craft, others learn others and they exchange goods and services to satisfy each other's necessities. Because of the necessity of division of work, human beings cannot live alone and they must live in societies. Civilization is "Ta'mir-i bilad and tarfih-i ibad" which means building or reconstructing cities and towns in order to live a social life. The quality of social life there would be such that everyone will be free to live their lives the way they choose to live freely without any cohersion from anyone else in all respects including total religios freedom.]

When human beings live together, the shrewd ones try to attack others' property and rights. Some others try to oppress the weak because every soul (Nafs) tries to obtain what he likes or desires. When there are a few of them wanting the same thing, they start to fight among themselves just like the dogs, which gather around a piece of carcass, show their teeth to each other and start to bark. A judge with strong powers is necessary in order to enforce law and order among these fighters. Everyone who trades would claim that his goods are more valuable than others' goods. Therefore, it is necessary to determine mutual values of goods and services justly. The measure which determines the mutual value of goods is the gold and silver or in other words it is the money. Gold and silver are called cash money (Nakdayn). Many nations issue banknotes and base their currency on gold. The governments having much gold can issue lots of banknotes. Alternately, if the governments have little gold and issue lots of banknotes, these banknotes will not have any value. Allahu ta'ala created gold and silver as money. Nothing else can replace the place of gold. For this reason we were ordered to calculate and pay the obligatory almsgiving (Zakat) with gold and silver. Hence, it is understood that there is a necessity for a just judge who would determine the value of the goods justly with gold and silver. This judge which has the authority is the government. A just government prevents oppression and torture and provides the justice ordered by Allahu ta'ala and determines the values of the goods justly.

In conclusion it is understood that in order to establish justice among the human beings the following three things are necessary: 1-"Namus-i Rabbani", 2-"Hakim-Insani", and 3-"Dinar-i Mezani". Among these three, the strongest and the biggest is the "Namus-i Rabbani" which is the Islamic religion. Religions are divine laws sent by Allahu ta'ala in order to establish justice. He sent these divine laws so that the judges would provide justice. The meaning of Chapter Hadid, 25th verse of the Qur'an is as follows, "We have sent them the book and the Scale so that they may practice justice through them." In this verse "Book" means religion, because religion is the name for the commandments and prohibitions of the Qur'an. The "Scale" points to the gold because weight of gold is measured through scale. Those who do not like the commandments and prohibitions of the Qur'an are disbelievers and hypocrites (Munafiqs). Anyone who does not obey the judge or government is a rebel. [Muslims do not rebel against the laws of the countries (Dar-ul-harb) outside of Islamic states and do not commit any crime against them.] Persons who do not accept the value of gold become a traitor and a thief.

WARNING: a human being firstly should do justice to himself, to his actions, and to his body organs. Secondly, he should do justice to his family members, neighbors, and friends. Those who work for the department of justice and members of the government should do justice to the people. In order to possess the virtue justice, firstly his body organs should possess justice, secondly, his actions should have justice. One should utilize his strength and his body organs for a purpose which is in accordance with their creation. One should not change the order of Allahu ta'ala and utilize his body organs in things that are not approved by wisdom and Islam. If one has family, he should treat them according to the behavior which is compatible with wisdom and religion. One should not deviate from the good morals which is shown by the religion and should strive to obtain the virtues. If one holds a rank or position such as a judge, governor, military commander or any other kind of a leader, he should observe and perform the worships and he should let other people working under his command to do their worships too. A person who does these things will become the vicegerent (Khalifa) of Allahu ta'ala. He will also enjoy the blessings which will be given to just people in the next life. A person who behaves as described above will be such a valuable person that people, animals, even plants who live in his time and place where he lives will be benefiting from his virtue. In contrast with this, if government officials of a country are not good natured and just, and oppress people by taking their property, or by torturing them or by violating their basic human rights, they are unjust people or friends of the devil.

Couplet:

Don't be deceived by the villas and dresses of dictators,

Gardens of their villas are watered by tears of the oppressed!

People who govern other people cruelly will be treated mercilessly on the Day of Judgement by Allahu ta'ala. There is a saying which states:

Man, la yarham, la yurham!

which comes to mean, merciless people will not receive mercy! The governments that are made up of this type of unjust persons are not called governments but they are called bandits and robbers. These oppressors, in order to live a few years of good life, treat millions of people cruelly. But, they will never depart from this world until they experience the punishment from Allahu ta'ala for their cruelty. Even though they have all the necessary things to comfort them, they still suffer all sorts of troubles. At the end, one of their enemies takes everything away from them and thus forces them to live in great misery. The meaning of the 80th verse of chapter Maryam of the Qur'an is, "We will take away everything that he claims to possess or rule over. He will come into our presence alone." As it is pointed out in this verse, he will be brought to the presence of Allahu ta'ala at the Court of Justice of the next world with a black stain in his face. He will not be able to deny all the wrongs he committed, and will be punished for them severely. All the wrongs and oppressions he committed will manifest themselves as darkness and will cover him so that he will not be able to see where he is going. He will be thrown to hell by the angels who are in charge of hell and punished there much more severely than the punishments and tortures he imposed on people while he was in charge. He will not be able to obtain the forgiveness of Allahu ta'ala because he had called the laws of the religion as the laws of the desert and did not believe in the religion of Islam.