PROTECTION OF HUMAN LIFE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN SHARIAH AND CONTEMPORARY LAWS
Keywords:
protection of human life, Shariah and contemporary laws, comparative analysisAbstract
In whichever religion, society, or civilization, protection of human life is of utmost priority. This is the reason that in Islam, human being has been created as the most honoured creature. Messengers were sent to guide human beings so that on the day of judgement they will not raise a defense that they were not guided. Despite of those guidelines, man rebelled, causing mischief, and blood shedding. Even though bloodshed is a problem against any civilization, the mainstream media has been targeting Islam as a religion attributed solely to bloodshed, while the Muslims embellish their religion as the protector of mankind. The purpose of this paper is to provide a comparative analysis on both sharia and contemporary laws as what are the legislative as well as enforcement mechanisms in place for the protection of human life. The finding of this paper provides that Shariah (Islam laws) has more provisions in protecting human life to compare to contemporary laws. Therefore, the paper uses comparative analyses between Islamic laws (Shariah) and legislations from Universal Declaration on Human Rights 1948, national laws (particularly Nigeria), and African Charter of Human and Peoples’ Rights.
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