Public rights and freedoms in contemporary Islamic thought
Pluralism and diversity are considered as one of the laws (Sunan) of God in His creation. It is natural that Islam establish all the rules, and provide all the necessary requirements in order to protect this pluralism and diversity whereby God created us distinct in languages and colors. For this...
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2019
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/6476/1/FH02-FKI-19-30455.pdf http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/6476/ |
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| Summary: | Pluralism and diversity are considered as one of the laws (Sunan) of God in His
creation. It is natural that Islam establish all the rules, and provide all the necessary
requirements in order to protect this pluralism and diversity whereby God created
us distinct in languages and colors. For this reason, Islam derived its strength and
greatness from the liability of these legislations, concepts and principles for
application on the ground, and from their being within the bounds of the limited
human capacity and energy. The problem of the research lies in the original
differences which make variance obvious between Islam and the contemporary
political thought in determining the rights and the public freedoms. The researcher
aims from this study to clarify the most important rights and freedoms in the
contemporary Islamic thought and to discuss the difference between the Islamic
epistemological model and the material epistemological model, and also to show
the differences between the Islamic conceptualization and the Western
conceptualization concerning the rights and the freedoms. In order to achieve the
aim of this study, the researcher used the descriptive analytical methodology. The
study reached the following results: that the human freedom should be committed
to the horizons of Shari’a (Muslim religious law), the limits of God, and that Islam
considers freedom as being necessary for humanity in general and not only for the
Muslim person alone. Equality is a guaranteed right for every human being and it is
a great basis on which religion is established. God made piety as the balance of
prederence between human beings. Islam determined precisely all rights and
freedoms by God’s commands and His limits which do not,as some claim , fetters
which tie up the energies of the human being and kill his aspirations and his
yearnings. Islam supports positive opposition and considers it under commanding good acts and prohibiting abominable acts as a collective duty on the Muslim
person, rather it is one of the basic rights which is represented in the freedom of
giving opinion within the limits of Sari’a ( Muslim religious law ) and its controls. The
study also concluded that the human being in the Islamic conceptualization enjoys
rights and freedoms but in the framework of the concept of the appointment of man
as God’s successor on the earth (al-istikhlaaf) and slavery to Almighty God,
whereas the Western conceptualization gives a free rein to man without a
restriction or a condition. |
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