International Human Rights Day

 

International Human Rights Day

World is celebrating Human Rights Day on Dec 10^th

Islam was the first to acknowledge and deliver the Basic Human Rights way back in 630 AD whereas the western world acknowledged it six centuries later in 1215 AD.

• ·         632 AD Prophet Mohammed Declaration in last pilgrimage (Mecca)
• ·         15 June 1215 Magna Carta (England)
• ·         1628: The Petition of Right (England)
• ·         1776: The United States Declaration of Independence (USA)
• ·         1789: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (France)
• ·         1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights by UNO

Human Rights of Islam is Divine in Nature and given by God and not by a king or assembly; hence it is absolute in nature. Whereas Man made charters and laws keep on changing and exploiting the world so as to suit the mightiest.

For further reading. Excellent book on this subject. please follow the link

https://www2.slideshare.net/arshad71/human-rightsinislam-by-maududi

BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS

• ·         The Right to Life
• ·         The Right to the Safety of Life
• ·         Respect for the Chastity of Women
• ·         The Right to a Basic Standard of Life
• ·         Individual's Right to Freedom
• ·         The Slave Trade of Western Nations
• ·         The Position of Slavery in Islam
• ·         The Right to Justice
• ·         Equality of Human Beings
• ·         The Right to Co-operate and Not to Co-operate