{"id":200,"date":"2012-07-15T09:57:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T07:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/web\/?p=200"},"modified":"2012-07-15T09:57:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T07:57:30","slug":"the-standard-of-morality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"The Standard of Morality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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\"\"Islam has laid down some universal fundamental rights for humanity as a whole, which are to be observed and respected under all circumstances.\u00a0 To achieve these rights, Islam provides not only legal safeguards, but also a very effective moral system.\u00a0 Thus, whatever leads to the welfare of the individual or the society is morally good in Islam and whatever is injurious is morally bad.\u00a0 Islam attaches so much importance to the love of God and love of man that it warns against too much formalism.\u00a0 We read in the Quran:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not righteousness that you turn your faces towards the East or West; but it is righteousness to believe in God and the Last Day and the Angels, and the Book, and the Messengers; to spend of your substance, out of love for Him, for your kin, for orphans, for the needy, for the wayfarer, for those who ask, and for the freeing of captives; to be steadfast in prayers, and practice regular charity; to fulfill the contracts which you made; and to be firm and patient in pain and adversity and throughout all periods of panic.\u00a0 Such are the people of truth, the God-conscious.\u201d (Quran 2:177)<\/p>\n

We are given a beautiful description of the righteous and God-conscious man in these verses.\u00a0 He should obey salutary regulations, but he should fix his gaze on the love of God and the love of his fellow-men.<\/p>\n

We are given four directions:<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our faith should be true and sincere,<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We must be prepared to show it in deeds of charity to our fellow-men,<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We must be good citizens, supporting social organizations, and<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our own individual soul must be firm and unshaken in all circumstances.<\/p>\n

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This is the standard by which a particular mode of conduct is judged and classified as good or bad.\u00a0 This standard of judgment provides the nucleus around which the whole moral conduct should revolve.\u00a0 Before laying down any moral injunctions, Islam seeks to firmly implant in man\u2019s heart the conviction that his dealings are with God, who sees him at all times and in all places; that he may hide himself form the whole world, but not from Him; that he may deceive everyone but cannot deceive God; that he can flee from the clutches of anyone else, but not from God\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Thus, by setting God\u2019s pleasure as the objective of man\u2019s life, Islam has furnished the highest possible standard of morality.\u00a0 This is bound to provide limitless avenues for the moral evolution of humanity.\u00a0 By making Divine revelation as the primary source of knowledge, it gives permanence and stability to the moral standards which afford reasonable scope for genuine adjustments, adaptations and innovations though not for perversions, wild variation, atomistic relativism or moral fluidity.\u00a0 It provides a sanction to morality in the love and fear of God, which will impel man to obey the moral law even without any external pressure.\u00a0 Through belief in God and the Day of Judgment, it furnishes a force which enables a person to adopt the moral conduct with earnestness and sincerity, with all the devotion of heart and soul.<\/p>\n

It does not, through a false sense of originality and innovation, provide any novel moral virtues, nor does it seek to minimize the importance of well-known moral norms, nor does it give exaggerated importance to some and neglect others without cause.\u00a0 It takes up all the commonly known moral virtues and with a sense of balance and proportion it assigns a suitable place and function to each one of them in the total scheme of life.\u00a0 It widens the scope of man\u2019s individual and collective life \u2013 his domestic associations, his civic conduct, and his activities in the political, economic, legal, educational, and social realms.\u00a0 It covers his life from home to society, from the dining-table to the battlefield and peace conferences, literally from the cradle to the grave.\u00a0 In short, no sphere of life is exempt from the universal and comprehensive application of the moral principles of Islam.\u00a0 It makes morality reign supreme and ensures that the affairs of life, instead of dominated by selfish desires and petty interests, should be regulated by norms of morality.<\/p>\n

It stipulates for man a system of life that is based on all good and is free from all evil.\u00a0 It encourages people not only to practice virtue, but also to establish virtue and eradicate vice, to bid good and to forbid wrong.\u00a0 It wants that their verdict of conscience should prevail, and virtue must be subdued to play second fiddle to evil.\u00a0 Those who respond to this call are gathered together into a community and given the name Muslim.\u00a0 And the singular object underlying the formation of this community (Ummah) is that it should make an organized effort to establish and enforce goodness and suppress and eradicate evil.<\/p>\n

Here we furnish some basic moral teachings of Islam for various aspects of a Muslim\u2019s life.\u00a0 They cover the broad spectrum of personal moral conduct of a Muslim as well as his social responsibilities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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