Abstract
Imam Hussein and originating the Human Rights principles.
God the gracious has dignified the human when he regarded him as
the being that has preference over all other creatures, and has gifted him
reason, livelihood and ability to move, so that human can live in free as “
the Lord said in the Qur‘an ‘and, indeed, have honoured the children of
Adam and we have carried them on land and sea and we have provided
them with Al- Taybaat (Lawful food things) and we have preferred them
on many of those whom we have created with a marked preferment’”(1).
Islam did not just stimulate respecting human rights and did not
introduce spiritual teachings only, but it enacted set of codes that aim to
protect these rights and to prohibit any kind of trespass on them. Hence,
there are indications in two hundred Aias verse of the Qur‘an, and these
Aias which all prompt to keep on the human rights mounted a hundred
right in number. In addition, the Muhammadan Prophetic tradition forbade
any sort of breach in the bodily and moral rights of man and even in his
ways of thinking. This was certainly reported in the Prophetic Hadeeth
speech of “Muhammad ‘puh’ when he said ‘ Every Muslim’s honour,
blood, and money is banned to be violated by every other Muslim’ ”(2).
While the United Nations, in its worldwide Human Rights Declaration on
10 December 1948, did not issue more than twenty one lawful articles
on the human rights.
This study discusses the reinforcement of the human rights throughout
the sayings, the addresses and the slogans of Imam Hussein when he
was in the last hours of the battlefield in Karbala, as these attitudes could
be considered as essentials and guarantees for all the humanity. |