Friday sermon focused on justice, calls to refrain from bribery and hiding evidence

Imams have called to refrain from hiding evidence and bribery in the judicial system, in the Friday sermon delivered across the country today.

The sermon, focused on “justice”, stated that witness testimony is a crucial form of evidence in the efforts to obtain justice, and testifying in court is encouraged in Islam.

Justice should be the basis of every government, without which no country can achieve development or peace and order, read the sermon.

“Attempting to obstruct verdicts by bribing judges, is prohibited in Islam. Bribery is a disease, a plague, which can destroy peace and spread enmity in the society.”

It further stated that in Islamic Sharia every claim should be backed up by evidence, and verdicts cannot be issued on charges that lack evidence - and the issuance of verdicts in the absence of proof, would leave the country in a state of disorder and anarchy.