Islam and Human Rights — Page 146
Isl am and Hum an R ights 146 regulations on the subject of marriage which are designed to serve as safe guards for the preservation and promotion of moral and spiritual values. These values are not the direct concern of the Declaration, but are the primary concern of religion, and to the degree to which a religion ignores or neglects them it ceases to fulfil its primary function. The Unity of God is the central fundamental doctrine and concept which Islam teaches with insistence. Every thing else stems from it and revolves around it. All order, all beneficence, all grace, all beauty, all health, all life, in short every positive value, proceeds from it and is depend ent upon it. Were it otherwise, there would be no creation, no universe, no man; if any kind of existence could be assumed or imagined it would be all confusion, chaos and corruption. “If there had been in the heavens and the earth other gods beside Allah, then surely both would have been corrupted and ruined. Glorified then be Allah, the Lord of the Throne, above what they attribute” (21:23). “Allah has not taken unto Himself any son, nor is there any other god along with Him; in that case each god would have walked away with what he had created, and some of them would surely have dominated over others. Glorified be Allah above all that which they attribute to Him. Knower of