Human Rights in Islam and West: (The Last Sermon of the Prophet and UDHR)

Abstract

The Human Rights have become a most significant issue of the modern history in Muslim and the Western perspectives. It can generally be defined as “those rights that are inherent in human nature and without which human beings cannot live a decent life”. There is a basic deference in Islamic and Western concept of human rights. According to Islamic claim Almighty Allah has granted the human rights to human being due to his honor and dignity. The western human rights are acquired after a long and endurable human struggle and demands. Another important difference is that in Islam the sources of human rights is divine revelation (Wahi) but in West the source of human rights is human mind and experience. This Article provides an over view and comparison of human rights from Islamic and the Western perspectives as a concept and a practice in the perspective of the Last sermon of the Prophet and the UDHR. I hope it will be proved an excellent struggle for those who interested in committed to the cause of human rights and establishing Justice, peaceful, tolerant and model humane societies throughout the Globe. It will be introduced the readers to some of the themes of Human Rights in the Light of UDHR and the Last Sermon of the Prophet towards creating a better understanding and awareness about human rights in modern societies. This article elaborates and analyzes the definition, approaches to the human rights, human rights in the UDHR and the last sermon of prophet and the analytical comparison of two documents.

Keywords: Human Rights, Islam and West, Comparative Study, UDHR, the Last Sermon, Holy Prophet