Human Rights
and Justice in Islam
Islam provides many human rights
for the individual. The following are some of these human rights that Islam
protects.
The life and property of all citizens in an
Islamic state are considered sacred, whether a person is Muslim or not.
Islam also protects honor. So, in Islam, insulting others or making fun of
them is not allowed. The Prophet Muhammad said: {Truly your blood, your
property, and your honor are inviolable.}1
Racism is not allowed in Islam, for the Quran
speaks of human equality in the following terms:
O
mankind, We have created you from a male and a female and have made you into
nations and tribes for you to know one another. Truly, the noblest of you
with God is the most pious.2 Truly, God is All-Knowing, All-Aware. (Quran,
49:13)
Islam rejects certain individuals or
nations being favored because of their wealth, power, or race. God created
human beings as equals who are to be distinguished from each other only on
the basis of their faith and piety. The Prophet Muhammad said:
{O people! Your God is one and your forefather (Adam)
is one. An Arab is not better than a non-Arab and a non-Arab is not better
than an Arab, and a red (i.e. white tinged with red) person is not better
than a black person and a black person is not better than a red person,3
except in piety.}4
One of the major problems facing mankind
today is racism. The developed world can send a man to the moon but cannot
stop man from hating and fighting his fellow man. Ever since the days of
the Prophet Muhammad , Islam has provided a vivid example of how racism can
be ended. The annual pilgrimage (Hajj) to Makkah shows the real Islamic
brotherhood of all races and nations, when about two million Muslims from
all over the world come to Makkah to perform the pilgrimage.
Islam is a religion of justice. God has
said:
Truly God
commands you to give back trusts to those to whom they are due, and when you
judge between people, to judge with justice.... (Quran, 4:58)
And He has said:
...And
act justly. Truly, God loves those who are just. (Quran, 49:9)
We should even be just with those who we
hate, as God has said:
...And
let not the hatred of others make you avoid justice. Be just: that is
nearer to piety.... (Quran, 5:8)
The Prophet Muhammad said:
{People, beware of injustice,5 for injustice shall be
darkness on the Day of Judgment.}6
And those who have not gotten their rights
(i.e. what they have a just claim to) in this life will receive them on the
Day of Judgment, as the Prophet said: {On the Day of Judgment, rights will
be given to those to whom they are due (and wrongs will be redressed)...}7
THEN WHAT IS THE MEANING OF MUSLIM TERRORIST
MAY I KNOW ?
In
the Name of Allah, Most
Gracious, Most Merciful