The Basic Principle The basic underlying purpose and direction of all the directives of the Islamic Shari`ah1 is the purification and cleansing of the human mind, body and soul. It is with this basic stress in its general directives that the Shari`ah also requires man to keep in perspective the criterion of the ‘good’ and […]
Principles of Islamic Ethics – An Introduction
What is Ethics? Ethics has been defined as: The normative science of the conduct of human beings living in societies – a science which judges this conduct to be right or wrong, to be good or bad or in some similar way. (William Lillie, An Introduction to Ethics, 3rd edition, Methuen & Co. LTD., 1971, […]