Another group of the Sunnis...

Another group of the Sunnis, who were called the Mu’tazilites, and all of the Shi’ites, believe in the principle of justice in relation to, the Creator and they believe that God never commits oppression. In order to separate out those two groups from one another, they called the second group, the ‘Adliyah, in which justice (‘adl), as a fundamental, was the sign of the school and the first group was called ‘ghayr adliyah’ (other than justice). Shi’ites were among the ‘Adliyah.

The Shi’ites, in order to distinguish their school from that of the other Adliyah, placed imamate as one of the fundamentals as well. Thus, wherever there is a discussion of ‘justice’ and ‘imamate’, this is in reference to ‘the Shi’ite Imami School.

D- As the fundamentals of religion are continuous rays of the principles of religion and as the ray of justice of the Creator is extremely effective in human society, and the most important base for human society is formed by ‘social justice’, the selection or choice of the principle of justice as one of the fundamentals of religion is a means to establish justice in human society and to struggle against any kind of oppression.

Just as the unity of Essence, Qualities of the Creator, the unity of worship of Him, the light and unity of His Oneness, a solidification of human society and the unity of Qualities are strengthened, the leadership of the Prophets and Imams is also inspired by the issue of ‘real leadership’ in human society. Thus, this principle of justice of the Creator, Who rules over all of the world, is a sign of the necessity for justice in all areas of human society.

The great, created universe is based upon Divine Justice. Human society will also not remain without it. 2. What is justice? Justice contains two varying meanings: A- The extensive meaning of this word, just as we have said, is ‘to put everything in its place. In other words, it is being in balance and equilibrium.