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Islamic Ethics

A scholarly guide to good character

“And indeed, you are of a great moral character.” (Al-Qalam 68:4)

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✦The Definition of Ethics ✦The Farewell Sermon ✦References ✦Justice ✦Forgiveness ✦Fidelity to One's Word ✦Magnanimity ✦Mediation / Reconciliation ✦Divine Love ✦Concealing Faults ✦Determination ✦Peace ✦Insight ✦Expansion (Spiritual Joy) ✦Acquittal / Innocence ✦Cheerfulness ✦Pledge of Allegiance ✦Righteousness (Birr) ✦Lending ✦Distance (Spiritual) ✦Courage ✦Excellence / Quality ✦Spiritual Attraction ✦Invitation (to Islam) ✦Awe / Terror ✦Guidance / Indication ✦Sagacity ✦Religiosity ✦Truthfulness ✦Friendship ✦Supplication ✦Good Manners (Adab) ✦Competence ✦Trust (Amanah) ✦Security / Safety ✦Poverty (Spiritual) ✦Self-sacrifice ✦Thought and Contemplation ✦Fleeing (from Battle) ✦Discernment ✦Chivalry (Futuwwa) ✦Zeal / Diligence ✦Contentment / Wealth of Heart ✦Admiration (Benign Envy) ✦Fairness ✦Enjoining Truth ✦Spiritual State and Station ✦Seclusion ✦Praise (of God) ✦Zeal / Devotion ✦Good Deed ✦Reverent Awe ✦Fear of God ✦Modesty / Shame ✦Bewilderment and Awe ✦Wishing Good for Others ✦Prudence ✦Sacrificial Offering (Hady) ✦Bashfulness ✦Migration (Hijra) ✦Guidance ✦Wisdom ✦Protection ✦Aspiration ✦Forbearance ✦Silence ✦Disposition / Character ✦Humility (Khushu) ✦Respect ✦Freedom ✦Good Opinion ✦Sorrow ✦Worship ✦Taking Heed ✦Responding (to a Call) ✦Chastity ✦Nullification of Deeds ✦Sincerity (Ikhlas) ✦Excellence / Benevolence ✦Caution ✦Hospitality / Honouring ✦Moderation / Economy ✦Knowledge ✦Kind Words / Compliment ✦Spending in God's Way ✦Orderliness ✦Fairness / Equity ✦Willpower ✦Altruism (Ithar) ✦Infallibility / Chastity ✦Seeking Help (from God) ✦Seeking Refuge (in God) ✦Seeking Forgiveness ✦Seeking Guidance (Istikhara) ✦Uprightness ✦Consultation (Shura) ✦Seeking Permission ✦Obedience ✦Trust / Reliance ✦Moderation ✦Moderation ✦Holding Fast (to God) ✦Serenity of Heart ✦Honour / Dignity ✦Contraction (Spiritual) ✦Heroism ✦Contentment ✦Intent ✦Nobility / Generosity ✦Nearness (to God) ✦Joking ✦Gentleness ✦Grace / Kindness ✦Spiritual State and Station ✦Praise ✦Steadfastness ✦Enjoining Good ✦Gnosis (Ma'rifah) ✦Indebtedness / Gratitude ✦Mercy ✦Affection ✦Social Conduct ✦Mutual Assistance ✦Self-vigilance ✦Shaking Hands ✦Love ✦Self-reckoning ✦Striving of the Self ✦Diplomatic Kindness ✦Care / Concern ✦Granting Respite ✦Manliness / Virtue ✦Gentleness ✦Debate ✦Forbidding Evil ✦Loyal Allegiance ✦Consultation ✦Sincere Advice ✦Honour ✦Remorse ✦Discipline of the Self ✦Cleanliness ✦Courtesy ✦Supplication ✦Remembrance of Death ✦Praise ✦Hope (in God) ✦Compassion ✦Contentment with God's Decree ✦Gentleness ✦Observance / Regard ✦Frontier Guarding (Ribat) ✦Maturity / Right Guidance ✦Patience ✦Enjoining Patience ✦Charity ✦Purity ✦Righteousness ✦Firmness ✦Invoking Blessings on the Prophet ✦Silence ✦Striving / Effort ✦Steadfastness ✦Generosity ✦Tranquility (Sakina) ✦Greeting with Salam ✦Praise ✦Truthfulness ✦Health / Soundness ✦Trustworthiness ✦Keeping Kinship Ties ✦Keeping Secrets ✦Tranquility (Sakina) ✦Silence ✦Joking ✦Valour ✦Intercession ✦Compassion ✦Gratitude ✦Self-protection ✦Endurance ✦Purity / Cleanliness ✦Dissimulation (Taqiyya) ✦God-consciousness (Taqwa) ✦Giving Charity ✦Thrift / Disposal ✦Reverence ✦Condolence ✦Mutual Assistance ✦Smiling ✦Devotion to God ✦Conveying the Message ✦Congratulation ✦Prudent Planning ✦Disciplining ✦Deliberateness ✦Thought and Contemplation ✦Committing Affairs to God ✦Progress ✦Modest Covering (Hijab) ✦Submission (to God) ✦Responding to a Sneeze ✦Encouragement ✦Escorting a Guest ✦Repentance ✦Humility ✦Reliance on God ✦Divine Enabling ✦Purification of the Self ✦Servitude to God ✦Brotherhood ✦Withdrawal / Seclusion ✦Amity / Familiarity ✦Hope ✦Amity / Familiarity ✦Keeping One's Promise ✦Unity ✦Love of Homeland ✦Dignity ✦Duty ✦Spiritual Ecstasy ✦Loyalty (Wala) ✦Loyalty / Faithfulness ✦Scrupulousness (Wara) ✦Certainty ✦Ease ✦Elegance ✦Remembrance of God ✦Feast / Hospitality ✦Visiting ✦Asceticism ✦Exaggeration ✦Enmity ✦Enmity toward Scholars ✦Laziness ✦Reproach ✦Love of Leadership ✦Falsehood ✦Transgression / Rebellion ✦Making Excuses ✦Cursing / Invoking Evil ✦Foolishness ✦Innovation (Bid'ah) ✦Loose Talk ✦Ignorance ✦Injustice / Cruelty ✦Disputation ✦Stinginess ✦Cowardice ✦Misguidance ✦Baseness ✦Begging ✦Harm and Molestation ✦Usury (Riba) ✦Fortune-telling / Omens ✦Loving the Corrupt ✦Corruption ✦Transgression (Fisq) ✦Fornication / Obscenity ✦Wickedness ✦Treachery ✦Heedlessness ✦Malicious Intent ✦Wrath ✦Backbiting ✦Vanity / Conceit ✦Committing the Forbidden ✦Persisting in Sin ✦Envy ✦Following Desires ✦Satire / Lampoon ✦Deception ✦Rancour ✦Shunning ✦Greed ✦Theft ✦Breaking One's Word ✦Apathy ✦Stupidity ✦Superstition ✦Hostility ✦Sorrow ✦Betrayal ✦Drinking Alcohol ✦Divulging Secrets ✦Boasting ✦Slander ✦Spiritual Expansion ✦Suicide ✦Obstinacy ✦Brokenheartedness ✦Revenge ✦Ingratitude ✦Apostasy ✦Wastefulness ✦Haste ✦Mockery ✦Arrogance ✦Making Unwelcome ✦Disobedience / Revolt ✦Objection ✦Rudeness ✦Jealousy ✦Arrogance ✦Holding a Grudge ✦Talebearing ✦Foul Speech ✦Ingratitude ✦Gambling ✦Uttering Blasphemy ✦Estrangement ✦Cursing ✦Vain Pursuits ✦Sin / Disobedience ✦Praise ✦Laziness ✦Indebtedness / Gratitude ✦Boasting ✦Exaggeration ✦Evil / Wrong ✦Struggle ✦Obsequious Flattery ✦Stubborn Arrogance ✦Ingratitude ✦Hatred ✦Talebearing ✦Following the Lower Self ✦Hypocrisy ✦Forgetfulness ✦Praise ✦Rejecting an Apology ✦Vice ✦Ostentation ✦Bribery ✦Sophistry ✦Eloquent Speech ✦Reviling ✦Dissipation ✦Testing ✦Ill Opinion / Suspicion ✦Lust ✦Wretchedness ✦Gloating over Misfortune ✦Complaint ✦Vitality ✦Contempt ✦Covetousness ✦Feigning Ignorance ✦Charging with Ignorance ✦Spying / Prying ✦Boastful Rivalry ✦Fortune-telling ✦Discord / Division ✦Threatening ✦Recklessness ✦Affectation ✦Fickleness ✦Feigning Illness ✦Laziness ✦Procrastination ✦Imitation ✦Self-abasement ✦Tyranny / Transgression ✦Long-drawn Hopes ✦Sullenness ✦Self-admiration ✦Breaking One's Promise ✦Delusion ✦Whisperings / Misgivings ✦Lying ✦False Oath ✦Despair ✦Oath ✦Abasement ✦Adultery / Fornication ✦Oppression ✦Topic 510 ✦Creed / Belief ✦Worship ✦Dealings / Transactions ✦Punishments ✦The Moral Order ✦Preface ✦The Farewell Sermon ✦References ✦Love of God ✦Guarding the Tongue ✦Virtue ✦Intelligence ✦Being Strong ✦Good Character and How to Attain It ✦Saying 'We Belong to God' ✦Topic 1060 ✦Topic 1074 ✦Topic 1075 ✦Topic 1147 ✦Topic 1281 ✦Topic 1284 ✦Topic 1295 ✦Topic 1297 ✦Topic 1308 ✦Topic 1312 ✦Topic 1374 ✦Topic 1375 ✦Topic 1376 ✦Topic 1377 ✦Topic 1378 ✦Topic 1421 ✦Topic 1422 ✦Topic 1423 ✦Topic 1424 ✦Topic 1425 ✦Topic 1426 ✦Topic 1427 ✦Topic 1428 ✦Topic 1430 ✦Topic 1431 ✦Topic 1468 ✦Topic 1483 ✦Topic 1495 ✦Topic 1611 ✦Topic 1613 ✦Topic 1614 ✦Topic 1615 ✦Topic 1616 ✦Topic 1617 ✦Topic 1618 ✦Topic 1619 ✦Topic 1620 ✦Topic 1621 ✦Topic 1622 ✦Topic 1623 ✦Topic 1624 ✦Topic 1625 ✦Topic 1626 ✦Topic 1627 ✦Topic 1628 ✦Topic 1629 ✦Topic 1630 ✦Topic 1631 ✦Topic 1660 ✦Topic 1661 ✦Topic 1707 ✦Topic 1769 ✦Topic 1884