Muslim Sources

just a few sources — seeking more resources — see also multi-faith notes


Human rights in Islam are firmly rooted in the belief that God, and God alone, is the Law Giver and the Source of all human rights. Due to their Divine origin, no ruler, government, assembly or authority can curtail or violate in any way the human rights conferred by God, nor can they be surrendered.

Human rights in Islam are an integral part of the overall Islamic order and it is obligatory on all Muslim governments and organs of society to implement them in letter and in spirit within the framework of that order.

No person shall be subjected to torture in mind or body, or degraded, or threatened with injury either to himself or to anyone related to or held dear by him, or forcibly made to confess to the commission of a crime, or forced to consent to an act which is injurious to his interests.

— Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights, 1981


See also: “Prisons, Abolition and Islamic Legal Discourse” Adnan Zulfigar 2020

references Jāvēd Aḥmad Ghāmidī’s “Prison as Punishment” (1989, Arabic)