The Fundamental Human Rights: An Islamic Perspective

Abstract

This article briefly summarises ten basic and fundamental human rights from the Islamic perspective. These ten rights will be based mainly on the two major Islamic sources, namely, the Holy Qur'an (the Holy book in Islam) and Hadith (the sayings and deeds of the prophet of Islam.). These rights are as follows: (1) The Right to Life, (2) The Right to Live in Dignity, (3) The Right to Justice, (4) The Right to Equal Protection of the Law, (5) The Right of Choice, (6) The Right of Free Expression, (7) The Right to Privacy, (8) The Right of Property, (9) The Right to Basic Necessities of Life and (10) The Right to Revolt. The major goal of this article is to refute the argument by some scholars that human rights are a recent and modern achievement and that they are quite foreign to Islamic culture.

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