"...when we speak of human rights in Islam we really mean
that
these rights have been granted by God; they have not been
granted by any king or by any legislative assembly. The rights
granted by the kings or the legislative assemblies, can also be
withdrawn in the same manner in which they are conferred. The
same is the case with the rights accepted and recognized by the
dictators. They can confer them when they please and withdraw
them when they wish; and they can openly violate them when they
like. But since in Islam human rights have been conferred by
God, no legislative assembly in the world, or any government on
earth has the right or authority to make any amendment or change
in the rights conferred by God. No one has the right to abrogate
them or withdraw them. Nor are they the basic human rights which
are conferred on paper for the sake of show and
exhibition and denied in actual life when the show is over. Nor
are they like philosophical concepts which have no sanctions
behind them."
