Human Rights in Islam

... do not judge bywhat God has sent down are the disbelievers."
(5:44)Human Rights In An IslamicState The Security Of Life And
Property: In the address which the Prophet delivered on the occasion
of the Farewell Hajj, he said: "Your lives and properties are
forbidden toone another till you meet your Lord on the Day of
Resurrection." The Prophet has also said about the dhimmis (the
non-Muslim citizens of the Muslim state): "One who kills a man under
covenant (i.e., dhimmi) will not even smell the fragrance of
Paradise." The Protection Of Honor: The Holy Quran lays down: "You who
believe, do not let one (set of) people make fun of another set." "Do
not defame one another." "Do not insult by using nicknames." "Do not
backbite or speak ill of one another." (49:11-12) Sanctity And
Security Of Private Life: The Quran has laid down the injunction:"Do
not spy on one another." (49:12) "Do not enter any houses unless you
are sure of their occupant's consent." (24:27) The Security Of
Personal Freedom: Islam has laid down the principlethat no citizen can
be imprisoned unless his guilt has been proven in an open court. To
arrest a manonly on the basis of suspicion and to throw himinto a
prison without proper court proceedings and without providing hima
reasonable opportunity to produce his defense is not permissible in
Islam. The Right To Protest Against Tyranny: Among the rights that
Islam has conferred on human beingsis the right to protest against
government's tyranny. Referring to it the Quran says: "God does not
love evil talk in public unless it is by someone who has been injured
thereby." (4:148) In Islam, as has been argued earlier, all power and
authority belong to God, and with man there is only delegated power
which becomes a trust; everyone who becomes a recipient ofsuch a power
has to stand in awful reverence before his people toward whom and for
whose sake he will be called upon to use thesepowers. This was
acknowledged by Hazrat Abu Bakr who said in his very first
address:"Cooperate with me when Iam right but correct me when I commit
error; obey me so long as I follow the commandments of Allah and His
Prophet; but turn away from me when I deviate." Freedom Of Expression:
Islam gives the right of freedom of thought and expression to all
citizens of the Islamic state on the condition that it should be used
for the propagation of virtue and truth and not for spreadingevil and
wickedness. The Islamic concept of freedom of expression is much
superior to the concept prevalent in the West. Under no circumstances
would Islam allow evil and wickedness to be propagated. It also does
not give anybody the right to use abusive or offensive language in the
name of criticism. It was the practice of the Muslims to enquire from
the Holy Prophet whether on a certain matter a divine injunction had
been revealed to him. If he said that he had received no divine
injunction, the Muslims freely expressed their opinion on the matter.
Freedom Of Association: Islam has also given people the right to
freedom of association andformation of parties or organizations. This
right is also subject to certain general rules. Freedom Of Conscience
And Conviction: Islam has laid down the injunction: "There should be
no coercion in the matter of faith." (2:256) Onthe contrary,
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HADEES - ~

The Messenger of Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said: "The first
of creation to be clothed on the Day ofResurrection will be Ibraheem
al-Khaleel." [Bukhari]
On the Day of Resurrection Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) will gather his
slaves barefoot, naked and uncircumcised. Then He willclothe His
slaves. The righteous will be clothed innoble garments, and the
evildoers will be clothed in trousers of tar and a shield of scabs,
and other awful garments.
The first one among the slaves of Allah to be clothed will be the
Prophetof Allah, Ibraheem (alaihis salam), the Close Friend of the
Most Merciful (Khaleel ar-Rahmaan).

The Prophet's Prayer (SAWS) Introduction

Praise be to Allaah, who made Prayer compulsory on his slaves and
ordered them to establish it and perform it well; who linked success
and felicity to humility in Prayer; who made it the criterionto
distinguish between Eeman and Kufr ; and who made it a restrainer from
shameful and unjust deeds.
Prayers and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad, who was addressed in
the Words of the Exalted:
"And We have sent down to you the Message, that you may explain
clearly to the people what is sent for them" 1 , and who fully carried
out this task. The Prayer was one of the most important things which
he explained to the people, verbally and practically, even praying on
the pulpit once -standing, bowing and prostrating, and then saying to
them, I have done this so that you may follow me and learn my prayer.
2 He obligated us to copy him in his prayer, saying, Pray as you have
seen me praying. 3 He also gave the goodtidings to whoever prayed like
him that such a person has a covenant with Allaah that He will enter
him into the Garden, saying, There are five prayers which Allaah,
Mighty and Sublime, has made compulsory:he who performs ablution well
for them, prays them at their proper times, and is complete in their
bowings, prostrations and humility, he has a guarantee from Allaah
that He will forgive him; but he who does not do so, has no guarantee
from Allaah: if He wishes, He will forgive him or if He wishes, He
will punish him. 4
Prayers and peace be also on his family and his pious and just
Companions, who passed on to us his worship, prayer, sayings and
actions (sallallaahu 'alaihi wasallam), and who made these, and these
alone, a Madhhab and a path for them to follow; and also on those who
follow in theirfootsteps and tread their path until the Day of
Judgment.
When I finished reading the book of prayer in At-Targheeb wat-Tarheeb
by al-Haafiz al-Mundhiri (rahimahullaah) and teaching it to our
brothers, four years ago, it became clear to us all the important
position of the Prayer in Islaam; and the reward,grace and respect
awaiting thosewho establish and perform it well; and that all this
varies, depending on its closeness to the Prophet's prayer
(sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam). This is what heindicated in his
saying, Verily theslave prays a prayer of which nothing is written
down for himexcept a tenth, ninth, eighth, seventh, sixth, fifth,
quarter, third or half of it. 5 Therefore, I reminded the brothers
that it is not possible for us to perform prayer as it should be
performed,or even approach that, unless weknow the detailed
description of the Prophet's prayer (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam),
including its essentials, manners, forms, supplications (du'aas) and
remembrances (adhkaar), and then we make an effort to put that
knowledge into practice carefully, for then we could hope that our
prayers would restrain us from shameful and unjust deeds, and that the
reward and blessings mentioned in the narrations would be written down
for us.
However, detailed familiarity withall these aspects of prayer is
unlikely to be achieved by most people nowadays, even many scholars,
because of their limitingthemselves to a particular Madhhab. But, as
anyone concerned with assisting in compiling and studying the purified
Sunnah knows, in every Madhhab there are sunnahs which are not found
in other Madhhabs; moreover, in every Madhhab there are sayings and
actions which cannot be authentically traced back to the Prophet
(sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) - most of these are found in the
sayings of the later scholars 6 , many of whom we see firmly
attributing these to theProphet (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam)! 7
This is why the scholars of Hadeeth - may Allaah reward them well -
have produced books of Takhreej on the famous books of the later
scholars, explaining the rank of each hadeeth given in them: whether
e.g. authentic, weak or fabricated. Examples of these books of
Takhreej are: Al-'Inaayah fi Ma'rifah Ahaadeeth al- Hidaayah and
At-Turuq wal-Wasaa'il fi Takhreej Ahaadeeth Khulaasah ad-Dalaa'il by
Shaikh 'Abdul Qaadir ibn Muhammad al- Qurashi al-Hanafi; Nasb
ar-Raayah li Ahaadeeth al-Hidaayah by Haafiz Zayla'i, and its abridged
version ad-Dirayah by Haafiz Ibn Hajr al-Asqalaani, who also wrote
Talkhees al-Habeer fi Takhreej Ahaadeeth ar-Raafi'i al-Kabir; there
are manyothers, naming which will only lengthen this discussion.

The Importance of Tawheed and the Evil Result of Neglecting it:

Shaykh Saalih ibn 'Abdillaah Al-Fawzaan
From his book Duroos min Al-Qur'aan Al-Kareem (p.5-11)
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Someone may say, and it actually has been said, "What is it with you
that you always focus on tawheed and you talk so much about it?! And
you don't take into consideration the condition of the Muslims in our
day and time, those who are being killed and caused to flee all over
the earth, those being persecuted by the empiresof disbelief in every
place?!"
So we say, and with Allaahlies success:
Tawheed is the foundationupon which this upright religion has been
built, so focusing on it means to focus on the very core itself. For
if we were to reflect over the Noble Qur'aan we would find that it
expounds on issues of tawheed repetitively, somuch so that there does
not exist a single soorah inthe Qur'aan that does not mention tawheed
, clarifying it and prohibiting what opposes it. It was Al-Imaam Ibn
Al-Qayyim who pointed out that the entire Qur'aanis about tawheed ,
since it is only made up of the following:
* Information about Allaah and His Names and Attributes - This is the
tawheed that we are to have knowledge of, called tawheed
ar-ruboobiyyah .
* Commands to worship Allaah alone with no partners and prohibitions
of worshipping other thanHim - This is the tawheed that we must put
into action, called tawheed al-uloohiyyah .
* Commands to obey Allaah and His Messenger ( sallallaahu 'alayhe wa
sallam ) and prohibitions of disobeying Allaah and His Messenger (
sallallaahu 'alayhe wa sallam ) - Theseare the ways that tawheed is
actualized and completed.
* Information about what Allaah has prepared for the people of tawheed
, the delights, success, salvation, and triumphs in this life and the
Next, and the punishments that are in store for the people of shirk in
this life, and the eternal torture prepared for them upon their
one-way entrance into theHellfire - The first is for those who
actualize tawheed , the latter is for those who do not. [1]
Therefore the entire Qur'aan is centered around tawheed . If you were
to think about the soorahs revealed in Makkah, you would find that
most of them focus entirely on tawheed . That is because the Prophet (
sallallaahu 'alayhe wa sallam ) stayed in Makkah for 13 years calling
to tawheed and warning against shirk . Thevast majority of the
religious obligations like zakaah , fasting, Hajj, the affairs of
halaal and haraam , business transactions, etc. were not revealed
until after the Hijrah to Al-Madeenah. Thelegislation of the prayer is
an exception to this, as it was made an obligation while the Prophet (
sallallaahu 'alayhe wa sallam ) was still in Makkah on the Night of
Al-Mi'raaj , when he ( sallallaahu 'alayhe wa sallam ) was taken by
night (to Jerusalem) [2], but that was only a short time before the
Hijrah .
So the majority of the soorahs revealed before the Prophet (
sallallaahu 'alayhe wa sallam ) made hijrah were focused entirely on
tawheed , thus showing how truly important the subject is.
Furthermore, the religious obligations were not revealed until tawheed
was presented and established within the souls of the people, and the
proper 'aqeedah had taken root. For verily actions can not be correct
except with tawheed , nor can they have other than tawheed as their
foundation.
The Qur'aan has illustratedthat the Messengers ( 'alayhim As-Salaatu
was-Salaam ) all began their missions by inviting the people to
tawheed before anything else, as Allaah says [3]:
( And We sent a messenger to every nation (proclaiming) : 'Worship
Allaah and shun false deities!' )
Allaah also says [4]:
( And We never sent any messenger before you, except that we revealed
to him that 'There is no deity worthy of worship except Me, so worship
Me!' )
And every prophet used tosay to his people [5]:
( O my people - Worship Allaah as you have no other deity worthy of worship! )
So this was the affair of the messengers - they began with tawheed .
Similarly the callers and revivalists who followed the messengers used
to begin by focusing on tawheed . That is because every single da'wah
that isnot built upon tawheed is a fruitless call that does not
fulfill its purpose, and there is no positive result to it. Every
da'wah that does not focus on tawheed is a lost call, with regards to
its end results. This is something well known and seen all over.
On the other hand, every da'wah centered around tawheed is a truly
successful call, by Allaah's Permission, a cal that benefits the
society and bears many fruits. History bears witness to this.
So we are not neglecting the issues of the Muslims, rather we are very
concerned about them. We are assisting them andtrying to prevent every
harm from reaching them using all our resources.....