Islam's Response to Contemporary Issues — Page 137
Chapter Three Socio-economic Peace Islam also has a word of advice concerning the areas where the horizons of society and economy meet. If these teachings are implemented, they can turn our dusks and dawns into twilights of exceptional beauty. Economic Justice under Capitalism, Socialism and Islam Economic justice is a beautiful slogan. Whereas attempts have been made to monopolise it to the exclusion of the others, the slogan is common to both the capitalist society of the free market economy as well as the scientific social doctrine of dialectical materialism: both talk of justice. But, with due apologies, I must express my dismay in that both have failed to do full justice to the golden principle of economic justice; but more of this, later. The Islamic concept of absolute justice is all-prevailing and all- pervading. It covers every aspect of Islamic teaching. But that is not all. Islam goes one step further.