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| Adalah | |
| Arabic | عداله |
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| Romanization | Adalah |
| Literal meaning | Justice |
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Adalah (Arabic:عدالة) meansjustice and denotes the Justice of God. It is among the fiveShiaPrinciples of the Religion.
Shia Muslims believe that there is intrinsic good or evil in things, and thatGod commands them to do the good things and shun the evil. They believe that God acts according to a purpose or design, and human reason cannot comprehend this design or purpose in its entirety (though man must always strive to understand as much as he can).
TheSunni School of thought conversely subscribes to the view that nothing is good or evil per se, and that what God commanded people to do became good by virtue of his command, and what he forbade became evil.[citation needed]
Morteza Motahhari conceived the following meaning for justice:[1]
In QuranAdl andQist are two words used to describe justice. Adl meansa balanced approach to all things, including life. So if a person is Adil, he is balanced morally, behaviorally, and spiritually. Also, Qist is defined as the approach regulating the human-human or human-God relations.[2]
Adalah is one of the principles of theTheology of Twelvers. Allah is described by many attributes, but just Adalah is chosen as the overarching principle of Shia Twelvers' theology for the following reasons:[3]
1. Adalah is important because other attributes of God get their meaning from it. In other word Adalah has a wide meaning as putting everything in their right places, so being The Most Merciful or The Sustainer get their meaning from Adalah.
2. Eschatology and Prophecy andImamah as principles of the Shia Theology are closely related to Adalah.
3. At the beginning of Islam there was a conflict regarding the meaning of justice. Therefore, the Shi'a put it in the principles of religion to emphasize justice.
4. Adalah in human society is an important element ofSocial justice. Shia Muslim by selecting it as the principal try to achieve justice in their society.