A General Introduction to Islamic Ethics

Abstract

This article studies "Islamic ethics" as a general introduction through a theoretical framing of the issue of ethics in Islam, as well as clarifying the ideological and intellectual interrelationship between religious and moral in Islamic law and Islamic heritage in general. The study was divided into the presentation and discussion of several main parts. The first is a general description of the idea of ​​ethics in human behaviour historically, and its linguistic implications. The second part includes a presentation and explanation of Islamic morals through the Qur’anic text and the Prophet’s Sunnah, showing their centrality in this field, as well as the role of ethics in Islamic law, especially Islamic jurisprudence. The third part studies how the various Islamic intellectual currents and schools of thought dealt with the issue of ethics. And the fourth section focused on the Islamic philosophical presentation of the issue of creativity in comparison with the thought of Greek Aristotle.

The article concludes that the issue of morals is an important and vital topic in the Islamic heritage and overlaps and covers all different aspects of life, and that the relationship between what is moral and religious in Islam is an original and existential relationship as it is rooted in the rule of enjoining good and forbidding evil that leads to the common good and happiness in here and hereafter life and, how the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is the quidance and the first moral example in Islamic history. In addation, the research concludes that there is a need to establish a solid and clear Islamic theory of ethics on scientific bases.