Status of Minorities in Islam

Abstract

Islam has not ignores the status of minority. Minority is one of the top priorities of Islam. This article brings to the fore the very status which Islam gives to the minorities and which they enjoyed while living in the Islamic social set up. Islam not only gives minorities the right to live in an Islamic society but gives them protection. The idea\word “Dhimmis” gives minorities the protection in an Islamic society which they never entertain in their own. Whether it was the time of the holy Prophet, the Caliphs, the Abbasid’s or Umayyad everywhere in the Islamic society they enjoyed not only as minorities but they were allowed to build churches, join Islamic forces and to become vizirs etc.