Spiritual Health Learning Community Center Exploring Life's Horizons   »   Streams Menu Surely, your soul has a right against you; your Lord has a right against you; your guest has a right against you, and your spouse has a right against you. So, give to each one who possesses a right against you. Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) Justice Justice involves knowing what is due to everyone and everything. Naturally, this raises the question: how does one determine what, if anything, is due to any given person or aspect of creation? Unfortunately, knowing what is due may not be enough. Presumably, we also would need to know when and where we should give what is due. In addition, we probably would need to know how to give what is due when and where we give it. Furthermore, maybe knowing why we are giving what is due to whomever, when and where it is supposed to be given and in accordance with how we are suppose to do this, also might be part of a just act. Even if we managed to know the: whom, what, when, where, how and why of justice, this still would not be enough. Surely, we need to put all of this into action. Needing to put something into action, is not necessarily the same as being able, or being in a position, to accomplish what is needed. Consequently, doing justice would seem to presuppose not only a willingness to do justice but a capacity for struggling to bring to fruition what one wills. Moreover, being ready, willing and capable with respect to giving: what is due, to whom it is due, where and when it is due, in accordance with how it is due, and with an understanding of why it is due, is, once again, not necessarily enough to ensure justice will be realized. Reality has to cooperate and permit us to activate our understanding and capacities concerning the doing of justice. For many of us, justice, to the extent we think about it at all, is often a matter of our likes and dislikes. We give what we like, to whom we like, when and where we like, however we like, and for whatever reasons we like. Alternatively, to those whom we dislike, we refrain from giving whatever we like, whenever and wherever we like, however we like, and for whatever reasons we like. All too frequently, we are not ready, willing and able to give what justice requires - assuming, of course, we knew the: whom, what, when, where, how and why of justice. Instead, we are ready, willing and able to give whatever we are ready, willing and able to give, irrespective of whether, or not, what we have to give is just. Many of us also tend to evaluate the justice which we believe is due to us almost entirely in terms of the satisfactions of our likes and dislikes. When we get: what we want, from whom we want, when and where we want it, in accordance with how we want it, and for the reasons we want it, this is justice in action. Injustice, for many of us, is often the negation, in part or in its entirety, of the foregoing scenario. Moreover, many of us tend to feel injustice also occurs whenever the people we dislike get what they want or get what we would like for ourselves, while we remain deprived of our desires. According to Mystic masters, perfect justice only comes from Divinity. Only God knows what is due to whom, as well as when, where, how and why. Only God has the capacity and will to bring knowledge of justice to realization. Consequently, if we wish to participate in the doing of justice, then we must seek to become a locus of manifestation for Divinity's knowledge, capacity and will in relation to the implementation of justice. Practitioners of the Mystic path maintain we only may become a locus of manifestation for Divine justice, God willing, when we become empty of, and free from, all the machinations and corrupting influences of our: passion, anger, ambition, desires, ignorance, and spiritual darkness. Indeed, we become capable of fully extending justice to others, when we have learned how to be just to ourselves. Only by seeking to acquire what spiritually is due to ourselves from ourselves, do we work toward becoming, if God wishes, ready, willing and able to give expression to Divine justice with respect to ourselves, others, creation and God. The Prophets, friends of God, and Mystic masters are personifications of the foregoing principle in action. By the grace of God, these people do not transgress against their own souls. In other words, they are doing, with God's help, spiritual justice to themselves. As a result, they are able to give expression to God's knowledge of what, in relation to others, is due to: whom, when, where, how and why, according to the spiritual capacity of these people of God to do so. One only has to spend some time in association with a Mystic master to experience something of the flavor of the Divine justice being dispensed through the locus of manifestation which is the guide. Whoever comes to the Mystic master receives, by the grace of God, what is due to her or him. Kindness, compassion, respect, acceptance, attention, generosity, forbearance, forgiveness, patience, love, honesty, sincerity, encouragement, and support come to those who visit with the Mystic master because this is what God has ordained to be due to these people. In fact, the when and where of their visits is so that justice can be done to those whom visit with the guide, and independently of the rationalizations given by them for why they have come to the guide. Guidance, healing, insight, and various kinds of assistance come through Mystic masters to the intended beneficiaries because, for reasons known to God, that which is received is Divinely determined as that which is due to such people at the time and place indicated and in the manner prescribed. If justice would not be served by such giving, nothing would be forthcoming, and that, too, would be an expression of Divine justice. Blessings, grace, favors, states and stations are given in accordance with what God knows is due to the people whom receive it. The when, where, how and why of this giving are all in accordance with Divine knowledge and will concerning the requirements of justice with respect to those who receive. The efforts and struggles of the recipients of such blessings are not the cause for the administering of Divine justice. Rather, Divine justice is one of the secrets behind such efforts and struggles. | Return to Streams Menu | Copyright © 2004 Interrogative Imperative Institute. All Rights Reserved.