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- ↑ Maududi, Abul A'la (1976). Human Rights in Islam . Leicester: The Islamic Foundation. ISBN 0-9503954-9-8.
- ↑ "Jamaat-e-Islami". GlobalSecurity.org. 2005-04-27. Retrieved 2007-06-03.
- ↑ Maududi, Human Rights in Islam, p. 10. "Islam has laid down some universal fundamental rights for humanity as a whole ... ."
- ↑ Maududi, Human Right in Islam, p. 13. "The people of the West have the habit of attributing every good thing to themselves and trying to prove that it is because of them that the world got this blessing ... ."
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