Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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Ethical Values in Islam, June 19, 2008

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Rabi' al-Abrar by al-Zamakhshari, vol.4, p.340
Sahih al-Bukhari, hadith no. 50
Musnad Ahmad, Hadith no. 4928
Quran 90:17 · Al-Balad
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5 min 10 sec
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Ethical values in Islam as universal human values, with the golden rule
“Today's topic is ethical values in Islam”
28 sec
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Moral decline since childhood, once-private acts now public
“Today's biggest deterioration has happened in moral values”
44 sec
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Moral values are actually universal values across religions
“Moral values, human values — these are universal values”
2 min 57 sec
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The golden rule as the simplest universal moral teaching
“A very basic human value exists in every religion”
48 sec
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The golden rule found in every scripture
“What you like for yourself, like for others too”
45 sec
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Character assassination example proves the golden rule
“If someone slanders me, would I like that?”
2 min
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Hadith: giving up lying eliminates every other sin
“A man asked the Prophet which sin to leave first”
4 min 22 sec
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Truth-telling story and how morals separate man from animal
“A man asked the Prophet which sin to leave first”
44 sec
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Moral consciousness is what separates humans from animals
“Animals have no moral consciousness at all”
58 sec
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Animal eating from a field vs a man stealing crops
“An animal doesn't know it should eat only its own field”
2 min 18 sec
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Hatred taught at home makes good neighborly behavior impossible
“If you fill your family's hearts with hate for neighbors”
6 min 12 sec
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How hatred at home and in nations destroys morality, with the Israel example
“If you spread hate for your neighbor in your own family”
2 min 13 sec
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Preaching morals isn't enough, you must build the right atmosphere
“Just preaching moral values is not enough”
1 min 58 sec
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Sixty years of 'Hate India' campaign blocking peace with Pakistan
“For 60 years Pakistan ran a 'Hate India' campaign”
4 min 6 sec
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Extending moral values to pollution, smoking, and industry
“We're now in the 21st century, and climate change is real”
1 min 24 sec
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Passive smoking as a model for extending moral responsibility
“You're smoking, but you're making me a passive smoker”
5 min 19 sec
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Accountability: freedom as a test, leading to heaven or hell
“Accountability means: man appears free, but this freedom isn't his right”
57 sec
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Every person faces heaven or hell as the two outcomes
“Every person gets one of two results: punishment or reward”
1 min 30 sec
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Why tell the truth when lying pays off right now
“So why should a person tell the truth?”
5 min 59 sec
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Why moral values must never be imposed through political power
“Some link moral values to political rule — I find that baseless”
2 min 52 sec
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Flogging people into honesty isn't real morality
“Some say moral values need political power to be followed”
40 sec
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Forced morality achieved by force isn't morality at all
“Compulsory morality is nothing, compulsory ethics is nothing”
2 min 14 sec
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Political rule and moral conduct are entirely separate matters
“Seizing political power to enforce morality is a jungle law”
42 sec
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Addressing a crowd never builds a moral society
“Addressing a crowd never creates a moral environment”
1 min 55 sec
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Moral education must target individuals, not crowds
“Gathering a huge crowd and giving a speech isn't moral education”
1 min 39 sec
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Islam's four heads: belief, worship, ethics, and dealings
“Islam has four big heads: belief, worship, ethics, dealings”
44 sec
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The Quran has no single chapter on ethics
“No chapter of the Quran is titled 'Islam's ethical system'”
3 min 1 sec
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Why the Quran scatters moral teachings across every chapter
“No chapter of the Quran is organized by subject”