Islam and Human Rights — Page 201
201 v i i Future Relationship between Islam and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights The Declaration concerns itself only with certain aspects of human life and human relationships and must perforce seek to achieve its ideals through legislative, administrative and judicial safeguards and action. It cannot avail itself of the means and methods necessary for achieving a more comprehensive and far-reaching revolution in the lives of individuals and peoples. The purely moral and spiritual aspects of life, except in - so far as they are inevitably in volved in all human conduct, are beyond its objectives. Nor does or can it concern itself with the Hereafter. Even sub ject to these limitations it constitutes an epoch-making for mulation of human rights, based upon the widest possible consensus so far