Honesty and Justice
Trust and justice are the principles by observing which a person becomes a true human being. When such positive people come together, it forms a good society.
In chapter 4, the Quran states: “God commands you to hand back your trusts to their rightful owners, and when you judge between people, to judge with fairness. God’s instructions to you are excellent. God hears and sees all things.” (4:58)
Every responsibility is a trust and fulfilling that trust to the letter is essential. Similarly, when one has any dealing with others, he should deal justly with them, be they friend or foe. Even if the way of honesty and justice apparently seems to be contrary to one’s interests and other considerations, even then the person concerned has to stick to justice and truth, because betterment and success lie in the ways laid down by God rather than in the ways which are in accordance with our desires.
The entire system of life proceeds on the principle of trust. It repeatedly happens that one person has something which belongs to another person, which makes it necessary for him to hand back the trust to the owner. This trust is not limited in nature but relates to a vaster area in which most of the matters pertaining to life are included. This trust may be a word or money, or property or secrets. It may be anything at all.
Moreover, the command of justice is also linked with it. In social life it repeatedly happens that in some matters relating to one person or more, there is one who stands for justice and another who stands for injustice. One attitude is positive and another is negative. On such occasions, the noble person is one who when he speaks, he speaks justly, and when he deals with others he always deals with them by adhering to the principles of justice. His love of justice is so great that in such matters he does not differentiate between his own people and those who are not related to him, even if the matter of the stand of justice goes against all his personal interests. Even then, he ignores personal interests and adopts the path of justice and truth.
Trust and justice are the principles by observing which a person becomes a true human being and a number of such people together form a society which is based on social welfare.
