Ayatollah Mousavi-Ardabili meets with Vice President for Legal Affairs

Rasa - Ayatollah Mousavi-Ardabili, has met with Ms. Elham Aminzadeh, the Vice President for Legal Affairs in the administration of President Hasan Rohani. They discussed the issue of the rights of the people in Islamic law.

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Date: 23 May 2014 - 13:26

Rasa News Agency reports - Yesterday, Ayatollah Sayyed Karim Mousavi-Ardabili, one of the sources of emulation, met with Ms. Elham Aminzadeh, the Vice President for Legal Affairs in the cabinet of President Hasan Rohani.

He said that human rights in Islam are divided into two parts - the rights of God and the rights of man. “Human rights are given a lot of importance in Islam,” Ayatollah Mousavi-Ardabili said.

His Eminence emphasized that the rights of man should not be violated and any violation of one’s human rights are unforgivable. “In the issue of [Islamic] human rights, only the one whose rights have been violated can forgive the violator.”

Ayatollah Mousavi-Ardabili pointed out that these issues are also taken into consideration in books of jurisprudence. Although our voices reach the people and those who adhere to the rights of God and man, our [voices] have become weaker.”

He explained that some of the present laws are against Islamic laws. “We cannot consider these laws as part of shari’ah and we must separate these un-Islamic laws from the cannon of shari’ah law. We cannot accept laws which have not come from shari’ah and God as they are not Islamic laws.”

He told Ms. Aminzadeh: “if you want to be successful in your work, you must separate the non-Islamic laws which have entered the corpus of shari’ah [from this corpus].”

Ayatollah Mousavi-Ardabili emphasized that the study of law and legal rules must be done from the perspective of Islamic jurisprudence. “If this is not done, the people will not accept religion and if they do not accept it, this issue will become apparent.”

He stated that the position of legal vice president is a valuable position and said: “Anything that is contrary to Islamic law cannot be considered shari’ah, and cannot be imposed on the people.”

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