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What Is Good ! What Is Evil - nawaz - 12-31-2004
Dear All
Man is a moral being, free to choose either good or evil, right or wrong. The basic questions are: what is good? what is evil? why good is good? why evil is evil?, These questions are the topic of ETHICS where Laws according to which OUGHT to happen are discussed. In this way ETHICS relates more to feelings than to the concrete world and incorporates instinctive behavior; within the purview of Mechanistic Theory of Life. The scale of values helps to determine which of the two goods is the higher and which the lower. Reason tells only about relative values. Ethics cannot even give a definite answer to the question as to whether there are absolute values and if so, how they can be known. It tends to define values in subjective terms, only in relation to the particular experiencing individual. It amounts to a tacit denial of an objective system of values, valid for all men at all times. Islam involves belief in objective, absolute values as moral standard. These values are given in the Holy Quran – the only source of our knowledge of the highest values on which the character development is based.
Armed with adequate knowledge of values, we can, if we want, give and act in full accord with the immutable moral order of the universe. The knowledge does not only consist in merely the recognition of a value as a value but involves a just estimate of the degree of worth possessed by it also, so that it may be compared with other values. Confronted with a situation where we are called upon to choose between two values, we can then promptly choose the higher and sacrifice the lower value for the sake of the higher. Character is strengthened by our voluntary sacrifice of a lower value to secure a higher one. When a man has to choose, for example, between life and money, he does not hesitate to throw away money and save his life. Here instinct backs his choice; but the same man may be forced to choose between life and honour. It is a cruel choice and the man may not reconcile himself to the loss of either of the two extremely precious things. Choosing the higher and sacrificing the lower value is the character development . National reconstruction and character development are intrinsically linked with Values Education whether these be through democratic values, through our system of education and curriculum at all levels: primary, secondary and tertiary. According to the Holy Quran, the five principles, are the five fundamental facts which one has to accept in order to become a Momin:
1. 100 % believe in - Eiman in Allah Almighty
2. Believe in - Eiman in the law of Mukafat (law of Requital) and the life hereafter
3. Believe in - Eiman in Malaika, the heavenly forces
4. Believe in - Eiman in the revealed Books
5. Believe in - Eiman on Messengers of Allah Almighty
Where-as;
* To have Eiman in Allah Almighty means to have conviction in His existence, to trust His every word, to depend/trust the laws given by Him and declare that one would obey those laws.
* To have Eiman in the law of Mukafat means to have firm conviction in that law: the natural consequences of actions, and to have faith in the continuity of life after death.
* To have Eiman in the existence of Malaika means to believe that all the heavenly forces are in operation in the universe to bring into reality the tasks/programs given to them by Allah Almighty and to have faith that all the heavenly forces have bowed before man or have been ordered to come within his reach, or man has been made capable of conquering them after doing research.
* To have Eiman in Anbiya / Messengers means that man’s intellect alone cannot safely reach the destination – this guidance has been provided in Wahi / revelation, through the chosen people called Anbiya and whatever the Creator and Sustainer of this universe wished to be given for the enrichment and growth of human personality were communicated in its most perfect form and for the very last time through Rasool Allah Muhammad peace be upon him.
Regards
Nawaz
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What Is Good ! What Is Evil - lifutushi - 01-06-2005
Assalamu'alaykum....
what about Qada' n Qadar then?