Privacy in Islam: A Sacred Human Right
| Journal | Al-Basirah |
| Title | Privacy in Islam: A Sacred Human Right |
| Author(s) | Tahir, Atique |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 17-27 |
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| Keywords | Islam, Privacy, Rights, sacred, Human |
| Chicago 16th | Tahir, Atique. "Privacy in Islam: A Sacred Human Right." Al-Basirah 1, no. 2 (2012). |
| APA 6th | Tahir, A. (2012). Privacy in Islam: A Sacred Human Right. Al-Basirah, 1(2). |
| MHRA | Tahir, Atique. 2012. 'Privacy in Islam: A Sacred Human Right', Al-Basirah, 1. |
| MLA | Tahir, Atique. "Privacy in Islam: A Sacred Human Right." Al-Basirah 1.2 (2012). Print. |
| Harvard | TAHIR, A. 2012. Privacy in Islam: A Sacred Human Right. Al-Basirah, 1. |
Abstract
‘Right to Privacy’ or the’ Privacy of an individual’ is considered as the most important and the most basic of all the fundamental rights and liberties. It is the concern of all legal systems, civilizations, cultures and religions. In the modern Western and legal perspectives, the right to privacy has emerged from the concept of right to life, which is considered as the basic right from which all the other rights are derived. Islam, on the other hand, considers as an independent and separate human right. The present study is an attempt to briefly reflect and accumulate all the aspects and dimensions of the Privacy right in Islam. It is mainly concerned with the privacy of one’s home, confidential correspondence investigating someone’s financial, private and family affairs, and other such violations, Its punishment prescribed by Islam and its implications on an human society, arising out of doubts, suspicions, accusations and mistrust, in the teachings of Quran and Sunnah of the Messenger ﷺ in particular and of the Islamic jurists in general.