The Call of the Quran
4. Moral Concept of Islam
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4. MORAL CONCEPT OF ISLAM
Ethics is the subject matter common to both religion
and philosophy, yet it is approached by them in
basically different ways. Religion presents moral
principles as divine dictates while philosophy
simultaneously looks into both ‘what’ and ‘why.’
The latter preoccupies itself with questions like why
it is that what is morally true is after all true.
This difference of approach has created a
considerable gap between the two disciplines. In
religion, ethics is defined as a known and
undisputably established set of moral principles.
Being a divine dictate, it is quite exact in form and
content. On the contrary, right from the early
Greeks of pre-Christian times down to the modern
western thinkers of the twentieth century, no
philosopher has been able to formulate precise
ethical
criteria
of
human
action.
Every
distinguished philosopher has established his own
school of thought, but has failed to give to the
world a commonly accepted moral code.
Our point of view is that human limitations are a
