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Human
Rights In Islam
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on ‘Human Rights’ is being very common these
days; I personally believe that Islam firstly gives the
concept of human rights. We can find this very topic in
our holy book ‘Quran’. We can see this topic
throughout the human history and how Human Rights had
been implemented in society by different civilizations.
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"Islam
is the one of the best protector of Human Rights, the
only thing is that how we get the things in our consideration." |
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From time immemorial humanity has been torn
into pieces due to vanity and self-conceit, based on race, cast
or creed. In early times Greeks hated the non-Greeks, the Romans
despised the non-Romans and Arabs held the non-Arabs in contempt,
calling them “Ajam”(meaning dumb). Similarly the
Egyptians under Pharaoh treated the Israelites as helots, reducing
them to social and political serfdom. When the Israelites rose
to power they tried to crush the Christians and other people.
The Christians in their turn left no stone unturned to eliminate
the Jews from the face of the earth.
It is really one of the saddest calamities for humanity that
in the present age, said to be an age of advanced civilization
and culture, the evil effects of regional and racial discrimination
are continuing unabated in different parts of the world. The
UN which originally aimed at stopping the exploitation of the
week by the strong and ensuring fundamental rights for the mankind
has poorly failed in its objective simply because some of its
prominent members are still indulging in their old game of differentiating
between the whites and the blacks and between high caste and
low caste people.
Going back through history, the concept of human rights in Islam
and its practical applications to human beings are neglected.
However, Islam with its divine dependence on Prophet Mohammad
(P.B.U.H.) contains massage of human rights as its basic law
and injects the values of interest, which fully normalize the
claims and demands and needs in every society for which law
and provisions were made for the interest of individual human
beings.
As we all know rights and duties are correlated. One cannot
have a right without duty or a duty without right, so law had
particular influence on rights and duties. The function of the
law is to control illegal activities and safeguard the rights
of the other human beings. Prophet Mohammad (P.B.U.H.), the
final messenger, worked day and night for the preservation of
human rights. He acted very strongly against human rights atrocities.
Moreover, after migration in 622 A.D., he introduced a charter
in Madinah, which guarantees full protection of religion, life,
and also safeguards property.
So, from above discussion we can conclude that Islam is the
one of the best protector of Human Rights, the only thing is
that how we get the things in our consideration.
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