Islam and Human Rights — Page 178
Isl am and Hum an R ights 178 is in full sympathy with them. If any of the means and methods set forth in these articles are found to be out of step with Islamic values social, economic, cultural, moral or spiritual-alternative means and methods, more in accord with those values, can be availed of for the purpose of achieving the agreed objectives. Articles 29-30 Like most subjects affecting human personality, the subject of human rights has many facets. Freedom right fully occupies a place in the forefront. Yet to ensure due freedom for everyone, the freedom of each must be curbed, restrained and regulated. As has been wisely observed, our only real freedom is the right to discipline our freedom. The Declaration has not overlooked this aspect. These two articles take care of it. It is a truism that every right carries with it a corresponding duty. It is the due observ ance and discharge of the duty that fully safeguards the right. It must be recognized that legislative, administrative and judicial checks and safeguards, essential as they are and scrupulously as they must be devised and maintained, can cover but a sector of the total field of