Islam and Human Rights — Page 7
Introductory 7 home to all in every corner of the globe. While, therefore, it is not only necessary but essential that we should intensify and multiply our efforts towards the safeguarding of human rights through executive, admini strative, legislative and judicial processes, we must all, individually and collectively, strive continuously to deepen our consciousness of the duties we owe to each other at the moral and spiritual levels. For the Muslims, and indeed for all mankind, Islam seeks to stimulate and deepen that consciousness. It empha sizes our duties and obligations, so that each of us, by due discharge of them, should help to safeguard freedom, justice and equality for all and should promote and foster human welfare and prosperity in all spheres - social, economic, moral and spiritual. It seeks to establish a pat tern of society which, in all the changing and developing circumstances of a dynamic world, would maintain its character of beneficence in all spheres of life - individual, domestic, national and international. For this purpose it furnishes us with a framework of beliefs, duties, obligations, exhortations and sanctions. It also provides us with guid ance at all levels and in all fields. The Prophet’s functions are described in the Quran