The Right to Life and Safety The most basic right of a human being is the right to live. The Glorious Quran recognizes this right in the following verses: Nor take life - which Allah has made sacred , except for just cause. [Quran, 17:33] Whosoever kills a human being without due reason - not in retaliation for murder or corruption on earth , it is as though he had killed all of mankind. [Quran, 5:32] Islams position on life is that it is a sacred trust from God. No human being is permitted to take the life of another, unless it is for justice administered by a competent court following due process of law. Not only do human beings have the right not to be harmed, they have the right to be safeguarded from harm , physical or otherwise. So under Islamic law, people are legally liable for instance, if they did not prevent a blind man from dying of a perilous fall, if they were in a position to do so. Even in a state of war, Islam enjoins that one deals with the enemy nobly on the battlefield. Islam has drawn a clear line of distinction between the combatants and the non-combatants of the enemy country.As far as the non-combatant population is concerned such as women, children, the old and the infirm, etc., the instructions of the Prophet are as follows: Do not kill any old person, any child or any woman. Do not kill the monks in monasteries. During a war, the Prophet saw the corpse of a woman lying on the ground and observed: She was not fighting. How then she came to be killed? Thus non-combatants are guaranteed security of life even if their state is at war with an Islamic state
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 13:40:42 +0000
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