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Determining and explaining the components of the justice-oriented Islamic community based on the teachings of Nahj al-Balaghah


Sulieman Ibraheem Shelash Al-Hawary
Hamid Mukhlis
Ola Abdallah Mahdi
Susilo Surahman
Samar Adnan
Mohammed Abdulkreem Salim
A. Heri Iswanto

Abstract

As emphasised in Islamic sources, justice is one of the most important issues covered in the religion of Islam. In fact, justice is a central theme in Islam  and has a special value in this regard. Conversation about justice and its nature, as well as its realisation in human  communities, has been thus far a  necessity in human life. Actually, the establishment and implementation of justice in all areas are crucial for the utopia. Given the importance of this subject, the present study aims to determine and explain the components of the justice-oriented Islamic community based on the teachings of Nahj al- Balaghah. Therefore, the components that introduce justice orientation in the Islamic community are extracted from the sermons, letters and wise  sayings (viz. narrations) of Nahj al-Balaghah. Afterward, the extracted components are classified based on the similarity of the themes and concepts. In  the end, five classifications are introduced, including distributive justice, procedural justice, interactional justice, social justice and fairness.


Contribution:  Based on the determined indices, the model of justice-oriented Islamic community is developed. It is thus recommended to pay more attention to the  realisation of a justice-oriented Islamic community by researchers and leaders. This is mainly because of the fact that the opposite of a justice-oriented  community is one with injustice, where oppression and disrespect for the rights of others occur, divine blessings change, divine wrath and anger are  provoked and destruction approaches. 


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eISSN: 2072-8050
print ISSN: 0259-9422