Social Justice in Nahjul Balāghah

Prophets and Imam's most important duty is to establishment and administering social justice. Imam Ali (peace be upon him) is a perfect symbol of justice and his sayings provide solutions to man's problems. The main concern of present paper is to shed light on Imam Ali's valuable sayings on social justice. The paper uses a descriptive- analytical and documentary method to study and review the subject in question. The most important research findings show that Imam Ali (Commander of the Faithful) has considers administration of social justice as the best act and a just leader as the best and most praiseworthy servant of God. He believes that social justice makes people satisfied at the performance of government, prevents public disturbance and guarantees country's security and stability. He also believes that people have an important role in the realization of social justice, and that the major obstacles to its establishment are indulgence in whims and unqualified officials….etc.