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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Human Rights Human Rights and Their Conceptual Development In order to avoid ambiguity, definitions of all terms employed in the text must be clearly explained. This basic requirement acquires deeper meaning when the discussion deals with legal terminology, and certainly gains added significance when its application is considered at a universal level encompassing international legalities.

Inter-Relation between Philosophic and Social Questions It is paradoxical that when one considers issues related to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, one notices so many terms used without any clear explanation of their intended meanings, For instance: What does "Right" mean? Who is the "Human" being talked about? What is man's intrinsic dignity? What is meant by the human family, brother hood, equity, friendly relations, humanistic spirit and the like?

The ambiguity becomes more acute when we realize that this Universal Declaration was intended to remain apart from the question of ideology, say from “The philosophic question" i.e. the question of defining attitudes towards the Universe, life and man.

This is a consequence and influence of capitalist views which impose its social ideas, removed from the philosophic question declaring that there was no relation between them, whereas we positively believe that a logical connection exists between them. Whatever an ideology, it stems from reality, otherwise, man would not know what ought to be unless he knows what is and what is the demand of reality.

This concept is reaffirmed when man, for example, holds faith in the divinity of Allah, the Exalted and Most High, and that He the Most High, had sent His messenger with guidance and hearing true faith, Islam, to direct and organize all aspects of life. Holding such beliefs, a faithful person has a choice between two options, no more. He is either to follow an Islamic Ideology, and organize his conduct logically or to reject his previously held perceptions renouncing all old beliefs.

Positively if a person held a materialistic conception of the world, he would have before him substitute ideologies and multiple gods, each drawing him to his way: "Allah sets forth an example: a man owned by several partners quarreling and a man owned by a single man.