WHY HUMAN LIFE IS IMPORTANT

 

 

“I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life.”  Rob Bishop

 

“I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today.”Tom Coburn

 

Back in the years when the only blood we saw being shed was during the celebrations; Sallah, Christmas, wedding occasions, naming ceremony, Easter or other form of celebrations to make the event or period more lively. We saw how goats, cows, rams, pigs, ducks, chickens and turkeys were slaughtered and we gathered round the butchers but they pursue us away by pouring little amount of blood to stain us  without any intention to harm us.

It is never like that today, it is humans that are subjected to these killings and inhumanity. Human lives have become nothing and valueless that we count death not by one or two or three on the newspapers, radios and TVs but by tens or dozens and more every day we turn to them (the media).

I am new to the media industry but from the little knowledge I have when fresh reports of accident, bombings, murder, clashes (farmers versus herdsmen, religious, ethnic), building collapse, gun men and security etc reach the news desk. The first question the news editor asks is how many lives are lost?

Just as Steve Nwosu wrote on the back page of daily sun newspaper. “Don’t be surprise if the news editor dismisses the report on the ground that ‘only three people died’, meaning the story is not significant. Yes even though we are talking about human life.”

Religiously, human life does not deserve worthlessness and humiliation of all kind, but we wake up every day to be told that Mr. A kills Mr. B or Mr. C rapes Ms D. human life requires respect, honor, dignity, caring and pity for the weak who as humans cannot meet up with the challenges of confronting life itself so that they could be equal to other creatures and humans alike.

 

Allah (S.W.T.) says in surat Al-Isra’, (Verse 70); "We have honored the children of Adam and carried them on earth and in the sea and provided to them the good sustenance. And we made them better than many of what we created."

Also, the Bible tells us in (genesis 2:7) that; “And the lord formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

 This is to incite men to control what is around them from other creatures, without having to humiliate themselves to anything and without fear. This way, pride and honor are built within men, and their feeling of being grateful to God.

Another importance of human life stem from the fact that man has the ability to distinguish between good and evil, but it is a pity today that man has taken himself to the extreme side of evil without thinking of the consequences of his act. In his pursuit to living, men want to be identified as the highest in rank or position in the society. This led them to deviating from the good to bad.

 Lastly, man is responsible and accountable and he will get the reward of his action and deeds. The prophet Muhammad (SAw) said in an authentic hadith reported by Imam At-Tirmithi, “The servant of Allah will be asked about four things on the Day of Judgment: about his life and what he did with it? And about his knowledge and what he did with it? And about his money where he got it from and where he spent it? And about his body how he used it."

 Enjoy life.