Islamic Morals [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Perfection
in the light of Morals

Part two

Preface

Imam Sadiq
(a.s.): It is your duty to adorn yourselves with the favours of morality as
the Glorious God likes it and to keep away from immorality as the Almighty Allah
is against it.

Man is a being
that has the best ability to reach the peak of perfection. It is an entity that
has begun its upward journey from nothing or point of zero or nothingness and
which moves ahead toward the point of endlessness and never will its journey
toward perfection stop should he keep moving on its route.

Islam is the
highest school of training which nourishes noble virtues and precious qualities
in man and similarly, the spirit of faith strengthens the sense of awareness
and accountability in his character. For this reason, at no point it is possible
that man can, during his life times, afford to neglect this great training even
for a moment.

There are some
people who did not appreciate that high status humanity and considered the perfection
of man as limited. But we believe that all the existence of the world is travelling
toward an endless perfection.

As man is a
social being, his perfection also takes shape in the midst of the society along
with the group of people. And it is essential for the perfection of man this
society should have regular law and order rules so that people may be able to
conduct their affairs in the light of and with respect for those rules and regulations
and prevent bad and undesirable incidents and, similarly, fix the boundaries
of responsibility.

Yes, if the
human society is reformed the members of that society can attain their final
goal. And if the society gets corrupted, obviously, people will not reach perfection.
And it must be understood that one does not reach perfection unless and until
he proceeds on the path of Divine Guidance brought by the Prophets of Allah.

Hence it is
must to follow the moral orders and commandments of the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.)
and his pure and guiltless progeny.

Therefore,
in this part also we describe some of the virtue which enable man to reach perfection
from the view point of the Holy Quran and Hadith so that by the blessings of
the Quran and the words of the great Prophet and his pious progeny we may gain
admonition for ourselves and also for you dear readers. After a review and analysis
and examination we will conclude that only such persons can in the light of
the divine laws, reach human perfection and attain their goal.

It is hoped
that these moral lessons will prove effect for our character building and will
help us in our journeys toward perfection and toward God.