Criterion of truth and justice The Islamic Canon is based on...

Criterion of truth and justice The Islamic Canon is based on the criterion of Truth and Justice, the two constant values of life by which legislation and law-making are judged, and on whose basis their natures, values, effects, goals and coincidence with the great objective of existence, are estimated. These two concepts are the foundation on which the entire Islamic Legislation is based.

There is not a single law which is not backed by these two principles, as are the other facts of the universe. By getting to know the meaning of Truth and Justice from the Islamic point of view, we are apt to discover the secret of their being the bases on which the Islamic laws are built:- a.

When a thing is true, it deserves a legitimate place in the life of society, as falsehood has neither place nor originality in Islam and is regarded as transient, unstable, an unjustified futility, and a worthless nothingness. Actually, falsehood is the inconsistent and negative course practiced by man against the idea of Truth.

For this reason the Qur'an rejects it as passing and vanishing, unable to occupy the place of truth or remain constant in the world of reality: “لَا تَرْكُضُوا وَارْجِعُوا إِلَىٰ مَا أُتْرِفْتُمْ فِيهِ وَمَسَاكِنِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُسْأَلُونَ “ [21:13] Do not fly (now) and come back to what you were made to lead easy lives in and to your dwellings, haply you will be questioned.

“وَقُلْ جَاءَ الْحَقُّ وَزَهَقَ الْبَاطِلُ ۚ إِنَّ الْبَاطِلَ كَانَ زَهُوقًا “ [17:81] And say: The truth has come and the falsehood has vanished; surely falsehood is a vanishing (thing). Who is best suited to judge other than the Creator of the world and all beings whose knowledge encompasses everything, whether a thing be it a canon or a subject has the merit of coming into existence and occupying a space however small in this world.

Consequently, the Secular Law knowing no ‘Truthful’ or natural base proves to be false, transient, haphazard, accepting no noble values, irrationally formed, admitting no estimation, having no constancy, futile, and showing no justification for existence, except the will and desire of its maker. So, the human legislator knows nothing about the status, value and effects of the law he is asked to legislate, as far as the facts and the objectives of existence are concerned.

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