Islam and Human Rights — Page 102
Isl am and Hum an R ights 102 Articles 6-8 These article are designed to secure for all persons recognition and equality before the law and the protection of the law without discrimination. Islam inculcates and upholds these values very clearly and firmly. It lays down as a condition of faith that recourse must be had to the judicial process for the settlement of disputes. The judgment handed down must be accepted without demur and carried out fully (4:66). The Prophet himself was the first and the principal Judge at Medina and was commanded to judge justly between the people- Muslims, Jews and non Muslim Arabs, (42:16). ‘Umar was also appointed a judge at Medina. The Prophet warned that the fact that a person had obtained a judgment in his favour did not confer on him a title to the subject- matter of the dispute, if in fact and in truth he was not entitled to it; for human judgment, his own or anyone else’s, was liable to error. 55 He thus strengthened the process of administration of justice with a strong moral exhortation of accountability to God, which could not 55 Bukhari IV, Sect. :Judgment’s, Ch. :Admonition to Parties.