The Public Right to Life in Islam and Human Right's Declamations

Today, one of the serious issues related to the philosophy of human rights, which is of great and world-wide importance, is to determine the relationship between human rights and the right to life. The present paper addresses the question of whether this right belongs to man solely because of his humanity, or is it also related to the value of life? There are two possibilities in this regard. The first possibility is that there is no doctrinal factor playing a role in the realization of this right. The outcome of this view is the conflict of the right to life with religious beliefs. The result of the second possibility is the involvement of religious values and beliefs in the realization of human rights and the determination of its scope and range, which results in the formation of the concept of the value of dignity, and consequently these rights will vary in terms of extension, quality of belonging, and Limiting factors. The claim of this paper is to explain and confirm the second possibility; accepting the second possibility means accepting the foundations, sources, goals, and guarantees of legal performances and is different from what the international human rights documents state.