Dirty Broom Theory through the Lens of Justice and Trust in Islamic Law

Abstract

This article reconstructs Dirty Broom Theory through Islamic jurisprudence by examining integrity as a condition of legitimate enforcement. Using normative legal research with conceptual, philosophical, and doctrinal approaches, the study analyzes the Qur’an, hadith, and scholarship. The study proposes a new formulation, Islamic Dirty Broom Theory, which reconstructs the theory’s integrity mechanism by positioning amanah as the source of integrity obligations, ‘Adl as the evaluative goal, and material integrity violations with a causal connection to procedural contamination as the threshold for delegitimization, rather than treating integrity as professional ethics alone or treating every procedural error as legitimacy-destroying. The analysis yields this proposition: where authority is exercised as amanah, integrity must govern every stage of the criminal justice chain, while ‘Adl provides the standard for evaluating process and outcome. This proposition is grounded in commands concerning trust and justice, prohibitions of zulm, treason, and bribery, and the Chain of Integrity Principle.