Attention to intellectual subjects on human rights sheds...

Attention to intellectual subjects on human rights sheds light on some hidden comers of religious texts and enriches the contemporary religious thought. The simultaneous use of the two methods stated above introduces the Islamic stance on human rights.

Multi-dimensional attention to some religious duties have paved the way for discovering some of the human rights as the attention to the inalienable human rights which are considered religious rights has led the jurisprudents and the Muslim thinkers to formulate some duties and some new principles. This reciprocity between the two areas of reason and tradition has helped advance the human rights as viewed by Islam.

The acceptance of the political rights of people in religious thought doubles the binding guarantee of the exercise of those rights because the social contract is the support of these rights other than religion and the violation of them entails worldly punishment whereas recognizing them by religion renders them dependent upon religious principles and religious conscience. And the violation of them besides the worldly punishment entails spiritual punishment as well.

If the political rights of people are institutionalized in juxtaposition with the rights of people in the religious society, religion and faith become a sure haven for the exercise of these rights. Therefore, it is natural that the religious society is expected to observe the rights of people more than other societies. Political rights are directly associated with anthropology.

The recognition of political rights of people came from the belief in human dignity: “We have honored the children of Adam, carried them on lands and sea and provided them with good things.

And preferred them greatly over many of these.” (Surah al-Isra 17:70) “And when thy Lord said to the angels, ‘I am settling in the earth a viceroy ...’” (Surah al-Baqarah 2:30) “We offered the trust to the heaven and the earth and the mountain: but they refused to carry it and were of afraid of it and man carried it.