These efforts are equal...

These efforts are equal, in aims, sufferings and results, in waging holy war against the enemies of Allah. So the person who tries to habituate himself to good behavioral education is a mujahid. He is worthy of success and guidance granted by Allah. Such a mujahid is loyal in his search for good. Whenever a person goes on jihad, training and educating the self in good behavior, he will be able to build a usual moral power in himself. Such a power becomes fixed with frequent practice.

With this power, he will be able to do good and avoid evil easily. This is the Islamic method in building the Muslim character and turns the principles into behavioral attitudes and practical movements. Here are the steps Islam follows to educate the noble moral feelings and perfect those feelings in obtaining virtue with a natural, automatic incentive. Educating the moral conscience (good and evil or internal feelings). Such a conscience helps man to know the good attitudes and follow them.

Meanwhile, it helps him to know the evil attitudes and avoid them. There are many factors involved in creating the moral conscience. Some of them are: the idea of punishment and reward, the feeling of extreme guilt while committing vice, and the feelings of happiness and pleasure while doing good and virtuous actions. Islam has made the moral conscience as a mark to distinguish between the believing persons and the unbelieving ones.

Islam has founded stable moral values and ideals as clear moral principles in order that the Muslim may confirm to them and regard them as life values, such as justice, mercy, trust and truthfulness. Islam has founded moral prototypes in order that the believing person may follow them. They are the prophets and the apostles.

**“** These are they whom we gave the book and the authority and the apostleship; so If these (people) disbelieve in it, indeed we have (already) entrusted it to a people who are not disbelieving in it.” (Holy Qur’an 6:89) Thus Islam has made a practical moral code for man in which he will find a unique moral model before him. This human prototype will clarify man’s way towards moral perfection. Previous…