"Allah gives a servant for his moral conduct the same reward that He gives to the mujahid." 11
"The moral conduct dissolves sins in the same way as the sun dissolves snow." 12
"Piety and moral conduct construct the countries and prolong the ages." 13
"If you want to be respected, you should be lenient, and if you want to be disrespected, you may be severe." 14
God did not send any messenger to people before He had adorned him with moral conduct, which is, then, the symbol of the prophets' virtues and the title of their personalities.
The Prophet Mohammed (s) was the ideal example of moral conduct, as well as the other high moral standards. By means of his ideal moralities, he could seize the hearts, and deserved, worthily, the praise of God:
"Most surely, you conform yourself to sublime morality. (68:4)"
Imam Ali (a), describing the moralities of the holy Prophet (s), said: "He was the most generous, the bravest, the most truthful and the most faithful, and in terms of temper, the most lenient and in terms of association, the most honorable. Any one seeing him for the first time is filled with awe, and any one associating with him loves him. I have never seen his like before and after him." 15
As a picture of the Prophet's moral conduct, it is sufficient to refer to his story with people of Koreish 16 who allied each other against him and showed him various sorts of bitterness that obliged him to flee his hometown. When God gave him victory against them, they were quite sure he would revenge himself upon them. He said nothing to them but, 'what do you think I am going to do with you?' 'Only the good, for you are a noble brother and the son of a noble brother,' answered they. He said: 'I will repeat the same wording of my brother Joseph the