Social Justice From The Quranic Perspective: A Qualitative Study

Social justice is an ideal, ongoing struggle, that unites numerous people to attain it despite many obstacles. It is pivotal to be applied in various dimensions of life and involves the roles of many. Discussions of social justice, in general, are commonly circulated around equality, fairness, freedom, and solidarity. However, most discussions on social justice emphasize the interaction among mankind without placing the role of the divine source, the Quran as guidance. The role of the Quran as the words of Allah should not be abandoned as He is the Creator who acknowledges everything about his creations. Besides, the application of social justice in the western perspective keeps changing depending on the condition of the society. This article aims to explore the principles of social justice embedded in Quranic verses by extracting and analysing the verses based on the books of Quranic commentary (tafsir). This study is qualitative in nature, utilizing content analysis as a tool, which involved describing, analysing, and synthesizing the words, themes and concepts present in the data. The results demonstrated that the principles of social justice are extensively discussed in the Quran, composing of honourable dignity of human beings, human’s equality, liberty of humans, fair distribution of wealth and opportunities and respecting human rights.