Moral Concept of Islam

4. Moral Concept of Islam ~ 61 ~ 4. MORAL CONCEPT OF ISLAM Ethics is the subject matter common to both religion and philosophy, yet it is approached by them in basically different ways. Religion presents moral principles as divine dictates while philosophy simultaneously looks into both ‘what’ and ‘why.’ The latter preoccupies itself with questions like why it is that what is morally true is after all true. This difference of approach has created a considerable gap between the two disciplines. In religion, ethics is defined as a known and undisputably established set of moral principles. Being a divine dictate, it is quite exact in form and content. On the contrary, right from the early Greeks of pre-Christian times down to the modern western thinkers of the twentieth century, no philosopher has been able to formulate precise ethical criteria of human action. Every distinguished philosopher has established his own school of thought, but has failed to give to the world a commonly accepted moral code. Our point of view is that human limitations are a