Adalah (Islam)

Adalah
Arabicالعداله
RomanizationAdalah
Literal meaningJustice



Adalah (Arabic: عدالة) means justice and denotes the Justice of God. It is among the five Shia Principles of the Religion.

Shia Muslims believe that there is intrinsic good or evil in things, and that God commands them to do the good things and shun the evil. They believe that God acts according to a purpose or design, and human reason cannot comprehend this design or purpose in its entirety (though man must always strive to understand as much as he can).

The Sunni School of thought conversely subscribes to the view that nothing is good or evil per se, and that what God commanded people to do became good by virtue of his command, and what he forbade became evil.[citation needed]