The role of public spending in achieving social justice from the perspective of the Holy Quran and narrations

Abstract

Public spending is one of the important and main concepts of any economic system, whether it is Islamic or non-Islamic. Despite the novelty of this concept in modern economic systems, this concept as an economic practice has existed in the Islamic economic system for a long time, such that the Islamic religion paid great attention to public money and established sound distributive foundations for it by spending it on the appropriate societal segments, Therefore, the Islamic religion sought to distribute wealth, public finances, and public spending on those wealth in order to achieve social justice and eliminate poverty. The study aims to achieve several objectives, including knowing the policy of public spending in Islam based on the Qur’anic texts and narrations to achieve justice, equality, balance, and social solidarity.

The study is a descriptive that describes a research phenomenon that is characterized by ambiguity and needs someone to focus on it and explain its dimensions. The researcher relied on the jurisprudential approach that seeks to know the position of the jurist and the mujtahid on the sources and evidence of rulings by urging people to do a certain act or urging them to leave it, and he relies on legislative sources from Quranic verses or prophetic hadiths or narrations of the pure imams. The study reached several results, including the Islamic religion’s emphasis on the importance of public spending for the purpose of financing projects that serve the general public. The research results showed the importance of public spending for the purpose of providing services equally to all groups in a way that ensures achieving justice in distribution, in addition to providing job opportunities for the general public and eliminating poverty.