Quran, Islamic Jurisprudence and Law

Non-Muslim Human Dignity in Islam

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Mohammad Javad، Mohammad Arasta،Mansour Broujeni

Ph.D Graduate, Department of Public Law, College of Farabi, University of Tehran (m_mansouri@ut.ac.ir) Associate Professor, College of Farabi, University of Tehran, Corresponding author (mjarasta@ut.ac.ir) This article aims at proving

Abstract
In the view of Islam, human being - Muslim or non-Muslim- has a dignity that entitles him/her some rights. It has been bestowed by God to all human beings. Although every human may make erroneous choices that bring him/ her out of the limits of humanity and the merits of the dignity that God has bestowed him, only God can decide on the decline of the dignity. Even deserving the most sever punishments does not denote the decline of human dignity and the elimination of the rights thereto. The present article explains several traditional evidences that prove the non-Muslim human dignity in Islam. If human dignity can be proved as a jurisprudential rule, the contradiction of some jurisprudential rules or Quranic exegeses to that can serve to solve this problem. The assumption that human dignity in Islam is more limited than that in the modern human right, drives from the comparison between this kind of dignity and the ideals of the modern human rights - but not its realities. It seems that Islam introduces a more stable basis for identifying human dignity and supporting human rights.

Keywords

Human rights
Bestowed Dignity
Human Dignity
Islamic Human Dignity
Quran, Islamic Jurisprudence and Law
Volume 11, Issue 11
August 2018
Pages 85-112

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