The Characteristics of Human Rights in the Islamic Judicial System

The basic principles of human rights such as ‘human dignity’, ‘human equality’, ‘human life’ and ‘human freedom’ are the major concerns in the Islamic judicial system. Through suggesting common discourse for all human beings as well as rejecting any form of sovereignty, Islam has offered certain universal human rights which can pave the ground for peaceful coexistence. Human rights are characterized as having the following qualities: they are demonstrable, revealed and divine; on the basis of a real anthropology, they are purposeful, truth-oriented and duty-bound; based on human creation and nature, they are realistic, all-embracing, coherent, consistent, having internal and external sanction, being ethical, universal, perfectionist rather than individualistic and socialistic, proportional in term of sexual rights and attentive to human rights in emergencies.