HUMAN & WOMEN RIGHT AND ISLAM

In its Arabic texts, the Qur’an is considered the primary source of authority by Muslims. The Qur’an is relatively a book of 77,000 words that are divided into one hundred and fourteen chapters (Suras). A hundred and thirteen of the chapters of the Qur’an begin with an indication of book’s intent (In the name of Allah the All-Compassionate and the Ever-Merciful).

The book is largely concerned with establishing boundaries that Muslims are prohibited from transgressing. Within these boundaries the Qur’an treats human beings as equally valuable and endowed with certain rights by virtue of simply being human not taking one’s location, religion, ethnic origin, race, nation or any other status into consideration, hence Human Rights. The rights bestowed upon humans in the Qur’an include the right to life and peaceful living (as the name of the religion implied Islam which means Peace), as well as the right to own, protect and have property protected. The Qur’an also contains rights for minority to the extent of dictating how Prisoners of war ought to be treated.

In the world of today, human right has been defined as; moral principles or norms that describe certain standards of human behavior, and are regularly protect as natural and legal rights in municipal and international law. They are commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights “to which a person is inherently entitled simply because he or she is a human being”, and which are “inherent in all human beings” regardless of their nation, location, language, religion, ethnic origin or any status. They are applicable everywhere and at every time in the sense of being universal, and they are egalitarian in the sense of being the same for everyone.

They are regarded as requiring empathy and the rule of law and imposing an obligation on persons to respect the human rights of others, and it is generally considered that they should not be taken away except as a result of due process based on specific circumstances, for example, human rights may include freedom from unlawful imprisonment, torture and execution.

EQUALITY IN ISLAMIC HUMAN RIGHT

The Qur’an states that all human are the descendants of one man Adam and are therefore brother to one another. The emphases on equality and justice in the Qur’an appear throughout the text and include one’s enemy. The duty of Muslims to be just and truthful enjoys a high priority status, in the Qur’an, and is described in the following manner, that

“O you who believe! Be maintainers o justice, bearers of witness of Allah’s sake, though it may be against your own selves’ or (your) parents’ or near relatives; if he be rich or poor, Allah is nearer to them both in compasson; therefore do not follow (your) low desires, lest you deviate; and if swerve or turn aside, then surely Allah is aware of what you do”. The Qur’an also unequivocally restricts its believers from aiding someone in need of their help only where they intend to deceive or carry out an act of aggression by stating “help one another in goodness and piety, and do not help one another in sin and aggression”. Furthermore, the Qur’an teaches its followers that treating followers of other religions justly and kindly is an article of faith.

RIGHT OF MINORITIES AND OTHER RELIGIOUS GROUPS IN ISLAMIC LAW

Although the Qur’an is the religious scripture of Islam, it prohibits Muslims from using any method of compulsion to influence the religious practices, and beliefs. The Qur’an goes even further in protecting the rights of the followers of other faiths by obligating Muslims to protect al “cloisters and churches and synagogues and mosques in which God’s name is remembered”. In relation to different ethnic, cultural and religious groups the Qur’an tell Muslims “for every one of you did We appoint a law and a way, and if Allah had pleased He would have made you (all) a single people, but that He might try you in what He gave you, therefore strive with one another to hasten to virtuous deeds”. The Qur’an advocates equality between all and says that the only good deeds may raise the status of one human over another.

WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN ISLAM

If the world will be just and fair to women, it shall ask them to abide by the Islamic laws upon them despite their religion belief, race or nation. It is known to every human of history that, before the emergence of the religion of Islam; women are being buried and killed alive for they are not loved by the then men (their male-parent), this is because they were regarding them as liability to their lives and weak in other ways, but Islam came and freed women from all tortures and covered them physically, mentally and spiritually.

With regards to women’s right, the Qur’an dedicates one whole chapter of its one-hundred and fourteen chapters to women which is evident from the very name of the chapter, Women (An-Nisa). The Qur’an in that chapter states that whoever does good deed, whether they are male or female, shall enter Paradise and not the least bit of injustice shall be dealt to them. The same message is repeated in chapter sixteen “Whoever does good whether male or female and he is a believer, We will most certainly make live a happy life, and We will most certainly give them their reward of the best of what they did”. The ability of women to bear children is a significant attribute used by the Qur’an in a number of verses to uplift the status of women. One such chapter state “And give women their dowries as a free gift, but if they of themselves be pleased to give up to you a portion of it, then eat it with enjoyment and with wholesome result”.

Women have also being given the right to inherit in the Qur’an. The Qur’an in one particular verse creates an additional obligation on men to provide, protect and generally take care of women as their guardians and not as superiors. Perhaps the most valued status, with regards to women, is that of a mother in the Qur’an as it illustrates this point by binding the reward of paradise to those who satisfy the needs of their parents.

In conclusion women have the best and gained the highest right in Islam beyond every other service. They were asked to cover their bodies so as to avoid increase in fornication and rape (the number one problem in the world today), but we are cultivating the result of women nakedness (which became sort of fashion and style) in our lives today, which if the women of the world would only accept the law given by Islam to covering up their bodies and avoid nakedness, we will in a year solve 90% of the global rape cases.

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H.A Fagge

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