====== Justice ======

  * Acting correctly, speaking the truth, and avoiding sins and lies. Straightforwardness. It is the middle way between excessiveness and insufficiency, and it consists of [[wisdom|wisdom]], chastity, and blessed courage.((Ali ibn Muhammed es-Seyyid eş-Şerif Cürcani, //Tarifat: Arapça-Türkçe Terimler Sözlüğü//, tr. Arif Erkan, İstanbul: Bahar Yayınları, 1997, p. 151.))

  * “**Justice** means fulfilling all compulsory duties, and avoiding all that are forbidden and contrary to human values.”((M. Fethullah Gülen, //The Statue of Our Souls//, New Jersey: Tughra Books, 2009, p. 55.))

  * “The word “adalah” (**justice**) comes from the root ‘adl’ in Arabic. ‘Adl’ means that the two pans of a scale are equal, or that the two sides of the load placed on a horse are the same. Every time **justice** is mentioned, I think that a scale appears right before one’s eyes.  For this reason, the scales were used as a symbol in the courthouse.”((M. Fethullah Gülen, //Kendi Ruhumuzu Ararken (Prizma-9)//, İstanbul: Nil Yayınları, 2013, p. 117.))

  * “According to the investigative and insightful scholars, the basics of faith could be summarized in four fundamentals: to believe in God, in the Hereafter, in the Prophets, and servanthood or **justice**.”((M. Fethullah Gülen, //Prizma-2//, İstanbul: Nil Yayınları, 2011, p. 174.))

  * “Everything has a purpose of creation. Every being must be employed according to its purpose of creation and capabilities, so that true **justice** is performed.”((M. Fethullah Gülen, //Prizma-1//, İstanbul: Nil Yayınları, 2011, p. 142.))

  * “**Justice** is a capital that can be used everywhere.”((M. Fethullah Gülen, //Ölçü veya Yoldaki Işıklar//, İstanbul: Nil Yayınları, 2011, s. 174.))

  * “**Justice** is a way of being close to God, but for some reason most people prefer to stay away from it.”((Ibid., p. 174.))

  * “The walls of Islam are truth, the gate is **justice**, and the inside is bliss.”((Ibid., p. 174.))

  * “Power’s dominance is transitory while truth’s and **justice**’s dominance is eternal.”

  * “**Justice** is the soundest bridge of universal [[peace|peace]]; oppression is the lowliest form of meanness polluting the horizons of humanity.”((M. Fethullah Gülen, //Kendi Dünyamıza Doğru (Ruhumuzun Heykelini Dikerken-2)//, İstanbul: Nil Yayınları, 2011, p. 231.))

  * “The establishment of a universal [[peace|peace]] depends on the promotion of [[compassion|compassion]] and **justice**. Such a universal [[peace|peace]] can only be achieved by people who nurture **justice** and [[compassion|compassion]] in their hearts, and who believe that even an unfairly gained cent will be held to account in the Hereafter.”((M. Fethullah Gülen, //Fikir Atlası (Fasıldan Fasıla-5)//, İstanbul: Nil Yayınları, 2011, p. 137.))

  * “The Qur’an is the unique book commanding true **justice**, real freedom, balanced equality, goodness, honor, virtue, and [[compassion|compassion]] for all creation. It is also the matchless book forbidding oppression, polytheism, injustice, ignorance, bribery, interest, lying, and bearing false witness.”((M. Fethullah Gülen, //Kur’ân’ın Altın İkliminde//, İstanbul: Nil Yayınları, 2010, p. 26.))

  * “Would the Majestic Being, Who manifests the sovereignty of His being Lord in the universe’s order, purposiveness, **justice**, and balance, not show His favor to believers who seek the protection of His being their Lord and Sovereign, who believe in His [[wisdom|Wisdom]] and **Justice**, and act in conformity with them through worship? Would He not chastise those who, denying His [[wisdom|Wisdom]] and **Justice**, rebel against Him?”((Bediüzzaman Said Nursi, //The Words//, New Jersey: The Light, 2013, p. 83.))

  * “There are two forms of **justice**, one positive and the other negative. The positive one consists in giving the right to the one who deserves it... The negative form of **justice** involves punishing the unjust, and so giving the wrongdoers their due via requital and chastisement.”((Ibid., p. 98.))

  * “Relative **justice** means that the part can be sacrificed for the whole. It does not consider the individual’s rights if these harm the community, and maintains that a lesser evil is preferred to avoid a greater evil. However, it is wrong to make relative **justice** the rule if absolute **justice** is possible.”((Bediüzzaman Said Nursi, //The Letters//, New Jersey: The Light, 2014, p. 92.))

  * “The Qur’an’s perfect **justice** forbids killing an innocent person, even if the rest of humanity would benefit thereby. In the sight of Divine Power and **Justice**, an individual’s [[life|life]] is equal to humanity’s [[life|life]]. Yet some people are so selfish that they would destroy everything and humanity itself to realize their own ambitions.”((Ibid., p. 452.))

===== See Also =====

  * [[peace|Peace]]
  * [[truthfulness|Truthfulness]]

===== Further Reading =====

  * Amartya Sen, //[[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25412.Inequality_Reexamined|Inequality Reexamined]]//
  * David Miller, //[[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/132836.Principles_of_Social_Justice|Principles of Social Justice]]//
  * Richard G. Wilkinson, Kate E. Pickett, //[[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6304389-the-spirit-level|The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better]]//

===== Other Languages =====

  * [[https://nl.hizmetpedia.org/doku.php?id=rechtvaardigheid|Nederlands]]
  * [[https://tr.hizmetpedia.org/doku.php?id=adalet|Türkçe]]

===== Footnotes =====