Justice and Qest in the Quran With Emphasis on Economic Aspects
Subject Areas : فرهنگی
1 - Associate Professor of Economics, Tarbiat Modares University
Keywords: Qest, justice, Quran, ethics, criteria.,
Abstract :
Justice is a great human ideal that has always been the focus of thoughtful thinkers and rulers, and the divine religion has also paid special attention to it. Qest is one of the words that has extensive semantic similarities with justice and has been used more than justice in the Quran. Different views have been presented about the semantic relationship of these two words. Some have considered Qest and justice to have the same meaning, while others have attributed different meanings to them. However, in order to better understand the concept and meaning of justice and Qest in the Quran and the semantic relationship of these two words together, it is appropriate to search for the meaning of justice and Qest in the Quran by examining the Quran more systematically in order to find a more correct semantic relationship between the two. This article attempts to achieve a more accurate semantic relationship between the two words justice and Qest in the Quran by analyzing the semantic components of the two words comparatively based on their co-occurrence relationships in the Quran and to test other interpretations of their semantic relationship. The result is that it seems that justice and Qest can be understood in the general sense of respecting and giving the rights of individuals, but these two words in the Quran, while having certain semantic similarities, also have clear semantic and practical differences. Justice has general conceptual dimensions, but Qest is the operational and executive definition of justice in the sense of giving the rights of individuals based on accepted standards in society.