Dimensions and Forms of Necessity of Rights and Duties in Islam with Emphasis on Imam Khomeini’s Viewpoint

Unlike the propaganda by the Western thinkers claiming to support the bill of rights, who introduce religion as a duty-bound, restricting, and anti-freedom doctrine, the religion of Islam publicizes an approach to human rights and duties of the citizens far beyond the approaches by humans. Islam’s comprehensive approach toward existential aspects of man and his material and spiritual demands is the only doctrine that respects man. On this basis, Islam has clarified in full all human rights including social and individual, civil, judicial and cultural, security and welfare for all people with well-specified limits, for which there are duties and responsibilities as musts and must-nots for Muslims to observe. In this research paper, we intend to review the cohesion of rights and duties and their intertwinement in Islam through a descriptive-analytical method. This paper came to the conclusion that Islam is the major supporter and legislator of the bill of rights; still more, the cohesion of rights and responsibilities in Islam is so comprehensive and all-embracing that helps man ascend to the peaks of humanity and spirituality to the rank of the ‘caliph of God on earth’.