Human rights and Islam
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Human Rights, The West And Islam
The Western Approach
People in the West have the habit of attributing every beneficial development in the world to themselves. For example, it is vociferously claimed that the world first derived the concept of basic human rights from the Magna Carta of Britain - which was drawn up six hundred years after the advent of Islam. But the truth is that until the seventeenth century of no-one dreamt of arguing that the Magna Carta contained the principles of trial by jury, Habeas Corpus and control by Parliament of the right of taxation. If the people who drafted the Magna Carta were living today they would be greatly surprised to be told that their document enshrined these ideals and principles.
To the best of my knowledge, the West had no concept of human and civic rights before the seventeenth century; and it was not until the end of the eighteenth century that the concept took on practical meaning in the constitutions of America and France.
After this, although there appeared references to basic human rights in the constitutions of many countries, more often than not these rights existed only on paper. In the middle of the present century, the United Nations, which may now be more aptly described as the Divided Nations, made a Declaration of Universal Human Rights, and passed a resolution condemning genocide; regulations were framed to prevent it. But there is not a single resolution or regulation of the United Nations which can be enforced if the country concerned wants to prevent it. They are just expressions of pious hopes. They have no sanctions behind them, no force, physical or moral, to enforce them. Despite all the high-sounding resolutions of the United Nations, human rights continue to be violated and trampled upon.
The Islamic Approach
When we speak of human rights in Islam we mean those rights granted by Allah. Rights granted by kings or legislative assemblies can be withdrawn as easily as they are conferred; but no individual and no institution has the authority to withdraw the rights conferred by Allah.
The charter and the proclamations and the resolutions of the United Nations cannot be compared with the rights sanctioned by Allah; the former are not obligatory on anybody, while the latter are an integral part of the Islamic faith. All Muslims and all administrators who claim to be Muslim have to accept, recognize and enforce them. If they failed to enforce them or violate them while paying lip-service to them, the verdict of the Holy Qur’an is unequivocal:
"Those who do not judge by what Allah has sent down are the disbelievers (Kafirun)." (5:44)
The following verse also proclaims:
"They are the wrong-doers (zalimoon)". (5:45)
A third verse in the same chapter says:
"They are the perverse and law-breakers (fasiqoon)." (5:47)
In other words, if temporal authorities regard their own words and decisions as right and those given by Allah as wrong, they are disbelievers. If, on the other hand, they regard Allah's commands as right but deliberately reject them in favour of their owns decisions, then they are wrong-doers. Law-breakers are those who disregard the bond of allegiance.
Alaikumassalam
The Human Rights are any which protect our need to act within our true belief in Allah. Therefore every country whose legal system is not in accord with Islam is not according Human rights; or even the basic right of the child.
mu'asalam
THE GREATEST DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS!
By: Shahid Bin Waheed شاهد بن وحيد
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
الحمدلله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على اشرف الانبياء وسيدالمرسلين نبينا محمد صل ا لله عليه وعلى آله واصحابه وازواجه اجمعين - امابعد
All the praises and thanks be to Allaah, Sustainer of the Universe, and blessing and salutation to be the most distinguish of the Messengers and foremost among the Prophets, our Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allaah be on him and on his wives, children and Companions.
From the historical context the first ever declaration of human rights as made by the Prophet of Islaam Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم in his Khutabah خطبه Hajjatul Wida (Farewell Hajj). This is the occasion when the greatest constitution ever, was presented to the mankind by the greatest benefactor of mankind i.e. Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم. Because of the practicability of its legal injunctions far preferable above any other declarations, it is the first Bill of Rights for men. It set an end to enmity, lawlessness, injustice, oppression, violence, exploitation and tyranny at such a time when mankind was steeped into pitch-black darkness. This Khutabah خطبه, in other words, has been and/or is truly the first and last “New World Order.”
A summary of the Khutabah خطبه is as follows:
Every individual has gotten three fundamental rights,
Security of Life
Security of Wealth
Security of Honor
Some other injunctions of the greatest constitution for mankind its articles regarding human rights:
1. It is obligatory to return trust and to repay the loan.
2. The amount of interest accumulated during the days of ignorance جاهليه that would have been due to pay, has been abolished, and only the original sum has to be repaid. Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم set an example by abolishing first of all the interest based money due to his paternal uncle Abbas رضی الله عنه that was in millions at that time according to some reports.
3. People were made to forget the unrevenged blood that was spilled during the days of ignorance جاهليه. Also setting the first example Prophet of Islaam Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم forgave the murder of his cousin.
4. Retaliation is to be taken in case of intentional murder and in case of unintentional murder a blood money of 100 camels is to be paid.
5.The custom of intercalation and adjusting the months of a year is abolished, the calendar is according to the sighting of the moon, and Lunar year has twelve months.
6. Husband and wife have rights on each other. The husband’s right is that wife remains chaste and does not allow people whom her husband dislikes, to enter in the house. The wife’s right is that her husband feeds and clothes her well, and one should fear Allaah regarding their treatment. (Absolute protection of spousal rights and especially women’s rights)
7. All Muslims are brothers, none can take his brother’s wealth without the latter’s permission; nor should they fight among themselves.
8. Take well care of your families.
The Lord of all the mankind is One (Allaah), and the father of whole mankind is one. You all are born of Adam عليه السلام.
9. The most honorable from among you in the sight of Allaah is the most righteous and God-fearing. No Arab is superior to Ajam عجم (non-Arab) likewise, no non-Arab is better than an Arab. (Absolute protection from racial discrimination)
10. Allaah has allotted shares of the inheritance to the heirs; to make a will above one third of the property is not permissible.
11. The child belongs to the owner of the bed and the adulterer gets the stone.
To make wrong claims about one’s descendancy and guardianship and to attempt doing so are accursed practices.
12. Do not oppress each other.
13. Your slaves give them to eat what you eat and dress them the way you dress yourselves. And if they commit such an error which you cannot forgive them, then o’ slaves of Allaah sell them but do not punish them. (Absolute protection of slaves rights and equal treatment of slaves unlike Christianity and Judaism.)
14. No criminal commits a crime but against himself. No son is liable for punishment for his father’s deed[s] and no father is responsible for what his son does.
15. A Muslim is he from whose hands other people are safe.
16. I (Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) leave for you two weighty things i.e. Glorious Qur’aan and Sunnah. You (Muslims) will not go astray as long as you hold them tightly.
Upholders of so-called human rights living in the present age have been shamelessly exploiting the less advances countries, using the Magna Charta as pretext. But the same upholders of so-called human rights were mute until recently because the very philosophy of human rights was not only against the colonial interests but rather implied a prohibition of colonialism in itself. For centuries the western trade and industry thrived due to those colonies. Only when the subjugated nations started revolting against their western masters forcing colonial powers to set the enslaved nations and/or people free, the idea of something like dignity of man and the basic rights of man sprouted up in their minds. What these so-called promoters of human welfare, friendship, sympathy and justice have actually achieved can be seen in the outcomes of the WWI, WWII, Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Rwanda, Afghanistan and Iraq to name few.
So horrendous crimes against the mankind especially Muslims have been committed by these advanced nations who are also the so-called upholders of human rights that finding something comparable even in the very darkest eras of world history is difficult and cannot be denied. These so-called upholder nations of human rights and freedom who makes nowadays so artfully and deceitfully much ado about freedom and human rights, are also the foremost in sucking the marrow out of mankind’s bones.
The so-called Universal Declaration of Human Rights is plagiarized from the Sermon {Khutabah خطبه Hajjatul Wida (Farewell Hajj)} that the prophet of Islaam Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم gave us 1400 years ago. As acid test please take the Sermon {Khutabah خطبه Hajjatul Wida (Farewell Hajj) of Islaam Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم} and compare with the charter point by point.
Those who make Islaam and Islaamic Code of Life, the followers of Islaam and above all our beloved Messenger of Islaam {Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم} object of their criticism, attacks and insults with regards to human rights, are doing so only for the sake of diverting attention from their own evil deeds of past and present. The Mercy for the Worlds [Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم] presented such a beneficial constitution and declaration of human rights in his Sermon {Khutabah خطبه Hajjatul Wida (Farewell Hajj)}, which has so far not been equaled by any other declaration yet. The fact of the matter is that he (Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) did that at a time when the so-called advanced nations of today were still steeped in the gutter of fraudulence, deceit, cheating and all other crimes while being very far away from having an inkling of even the meaning of human rights.
Also read:
Human Rights in the Glorious Qur’aan!
Saturday, March 05, 2005
Ref: http://www.islam-is-the-only-solution.com/greatest.htm
Last edited by Skillganon; 09-19-2006 at 08:02 PM.
Assalamalaikum
should not it be that we regard the five pillars being upheld by all persons in our environment as the fundamental Human rights from which all others follow
wasalam
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