The concept and Nature of Social Justice with an Islamic approach

The broad range of the meanings of justice and its increasing implementation indifferent fields such as social sciences and economics necessitates a coherent andreasonable explanation of the concept and content of social justice as the first brickof social justice geometry. This paper with the explanation of the concept, nature,classifications and important theories of social justice, seeks to show that the“putting the thing at its place” definition of social justice does not have sufficientsupport in literature, religious texts and scientific terms. The paper shows that thelexical meaning of justice is equality and its colloquial meaning in general justice isequality and correspondence of idea, practice, relation and states of self with rightthat is so called “observance of right”. In social justice, observing right necessitatesequality of all in implementation of law (without discrimination) and equality ofright giving with the degree of merit (without defect and supernumerary). In socialjustice, as the incomplete right giving is the violation of justice, going behind meritis also perfidy if it is treasury and is beneficence if it is personal property that bothof them are counted contrary to justice and such a meaning is more compatible with“giving every rightful his/her right” definition of justice. In the subsequent, thepaper analyses the meanings and practices of “right” and its meaning in socialjustice and shows that right considered in definition of social justice is a kind ofdominance and privilege for the rightful and is inseparable from creating obligationfor the rightful.