when the signs (amara) of Justice appear and its face is radiant, by whatever means it may be, there (you find) the Law of God and His religion. God, Praised be He, is too aware, too wise and too just to restrict the ways of Justice, its signs and its marks, to a single thing, to then reject something that may be more evident than those (and) to not judge, when such a thing exists and subsists, that it is obligatory. Through the ways that He has instituted as Law, He has rather, Praised is He, made it plain that what is aimed at by Him that justice be made to rule among His servants and that people strictly practice equity. Whatever the ways by which Justice and equity obtain, they are a part of the religion and do not run against it. - Ibn Qayyim alJawziyyah (d. 751), greatest of many great students of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (d.728), quoted by Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi in his book Al-Muhaddithat: the women scholars in Islam in discussing feminism as concerned with questions of Justice for women.
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 06:32:22 +0000
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