9. Good Characters

This standard of ethics is very simple and natural. It is so simple that anyone may easily learn it, be he literate or illiterate, able-bodied or disabled, regardless of his likes and dislikes. This hadith has given such a criterion for human ethics that no one can find it difficult to understand. In this way, Islam has set forth, in the light of everyone’s personal experience, what behaviour may be indulged in and what behaviour has to be refrained from. According to another hadith, the best of us is one who is best in moral character. Accordingly, becoming a good human being is not ambiguous. Its simple formula is that of avoidance of double standards. One who lives his life by this formula is indubitably a person of the highest moral character.