ABSTRACT
It is generally assumed that social justice is mainly concerned with the redistribution of resources. The question which always faces the experts is whether social arrangements benefit the whole community or not? Do the laws and social understandings broadly benefit everyone or do they only work well for the wealthy and powerful? Which institution works efficiently in a given social, cultural and religious environment, i.e., market, society or government. Another issue is which is related to the government and society, either strong society produces a strong government or vice versa. How do these two pillars work in a just society and how can they create a just environment? How do the members of society consider the rights of the deprived segment of the society? Is it possible for the market, government and society to promote the voluntary sector to fill the gap and how is this voluntary sector helpful for the achievement of a higher degree of social justice? In this chapter an effort is made to reply to the abovementioned questions within the framework of Islam. An appropriate model is developed which helps us to understand how, within the universal set of Islam, these three subsets (society, market and government) work as a complementary set to one another. And how do these three subsets achieve the Pareto optimality? And we also discussed how the objective of public interest (Maslaha) can be achieved with the guidance of Shariah.
