The Kaffir Concept of Human Rights

“Human rights” is a phrase that has been commonly used in a secular-liberal society.  When the secularists call for a so-called human right to be respected, they usually believe that these “rights” can be embodied by our laws, governments, and agencies.  Occasionally, people might say that the rights are “God-given”.  The latter is itself a contradiction – for if rights are given by God, then they must exclude anything which goes against His commandments and revelations.  However, the fact that the liberal-bourgeoisie want to protect the heretic and punish the believer, or protect the criminal and punish the victim, shows that their motivation for using “human rights” cannot have a religious or spiritual origin.

When the disbelievers refer to “human rights,” they therefore are manifesting their own ignorance and arrogance, for if they are saying that human rights are unconditional and given by a democratic government and the manufactured laws of the said government, then they are saying, indirectly that the concept of “human rights,” as well as the laws that a secular government creates, supersede the revealed religions.  However, according to Islam, this amounts to kufr: to insolence, to overstepping the bounds which Allah (swt) has set for us. It is a denial of our Muslim nature and a denial of the truth of Tawheed, for the rule belongs to none but Allah (swt).

This is not to say that law and order do not exist, or that people should not be treated with kindness.  But law and order is based on the divine Shari’ah in Islam.  For Muslims, there is only either obedience, or disobedience.  Either we accept the rule of Allah (swt), and live by Islam, or we are disobedient.  When the leftists, or the secularists, or the liberals want to encourage “human rights,” this is often the direct opposite of the order that the All-Knowing has given.  They want to promote the most reprehensible parts of society, and treat them as “brave people,” in order to corrupt the rest.

In Islam, it is said, “The seven heavens and the earth and all that is therein, glorify Allah” (17:44).  All things, are the signs of Allah the creator, and the aim our life is to seek to understand these Signs, and understand Tawheed.  Tawheed is knowing that we not only depend on Allah (swt) for everything, but also that it is for Allah (swt), our responsibilities.  Tawheed means to acknowledge and accept our reliance upon our Creator.

Right now, the idea of “human rights” is being used to undermine Islamic communities, as well as other traditional societies around the world which contradict the materialistic and atheistic vision created by the West.  The Imperialists are also using the idea of “human rights” as an excuse to continue their bullying of many smaller nations.  The true problem, however, is not that Islam is not compatible with the “human rights” that the West promotes, such as sexual immorality, the right to take riba, or blasphemy, but that “human rights” are incompatible with Islam.  This is a subtle but important distinction.  The aim of those liberals who speak of human rights is only to extend their own demonic hegemony over the world.  They did not, after all, consider the human rights of certain groups which they disliked, and in many cases expressed outright hatred of such groups.

The blind rush towards “human rights”, negates, and covers-up, our true nature. It takes us away from our true, natural, relationship with our Creator, and this kaffir concept of “rights” is nothing more than a false idol which should be smashed and destroyed.  We should remember that the people who created democracy, communism and human rights, are the same people who want to dominate others through an artificial system of ethics.  The remedy, of course, is a return to the Divine Revelation of Allah (swt) himself.