Principles of Islam
18. Good Characters
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This standard of ethics is very simple and natural. It
is so simple that anyone may easily learn it, be he
literate or illiterate, able bodied or disabled, and
regardless of his likes and dislikes. This hadith has
given such a criterion for human ethics that no one
can find it difficult to understand. In this way Islam
has set forth, in the light of everyone’s personal
experience, what behaviour may be indulged in and
what behaviour has to be refrained from.
According to another hadith, the best of us is one
who is best in moral character. Accordingly,
becoming a good human being has nothing
ambiguous about it. Its simple formula is that of
avoidance of double standards. One who lives his
life by this formula is indubitably a person of the
highest moral character.
