The Meaning of Right from Muslim Thinker's Viewpoint

The concept of "right" is one of the most important issues in ethics, law, and politics. When we study "right" we should focus on different subjects such as the meaning and nature of right, its types and origin, etc. and one of the most important of them is the meaning of right, especially form Muslim thinker's viewpoint, and more specifically in fiqh, law, sociology and politics. An exposition of thinker’s view of the meaning of right in different fields of Islamic sciences, especially law and politics, prepares the ground for discussing the important issues of legal and political systems soundly and scientifically. Having studied the literal and idiomatic meaning of "right" according to different sciences and Muslim thinkers view, the present paper concludes that "right" means "privilege", "sovereignty", and "allocation" and the total worth of all of them is a kind of "demonstration" provided for someone’s benefit.