Treatise On Rights

Know - God have mercy upon you - that God has rights against you and that these encompass you in every movement through which you move, every rest through which you rest, every way-station in which you reside, every limb which you employ, and every instrument which you put to work.

Some of these rights are greater and some less.

Islam merely recognizes the ignorance of human beings and their inability to perceive their own ultimate good without divine guidance.

Then it sets about to undermine and destroy individual ignorance, a

process which involves deflating the ego and eliminating all self-centred desires. As a result, the human self or soul (nafs) has few `rights', but many duties and responsibilities.

Or rather, the soul has only one true right - the right to salvation.