Akhlaq (ethics and character)

الأخلاق

Akhlaq is the settled disposition of the soul from which actions issue easily, without deliberation: if good actions issue from it the character is good, if bad ones issue it is bad — the definition given by Ibn al-Qayyim and those who followed him in the ethics books ¹. Islam made its perfection the purpose of the mission itself: 'I was sent to perfect noble character', and 'the most complete of believers in faith are the best of them in character', and God described His prophet as being upon a tremendous character. Its doors: truthfulness, trustworthiness and faithfulness to covenant; patience and gratitude; humility, modesty, forbearance and pardon; sincerity, altruism and generosity; kindness to parents, kinship ties and good neighbourliness; withholding harm from people. Its opposites: lying, treachery, pride, ostentation, envy, miserliness, backbiting, slander, mockery, anger, injustice, disobedience to parents, hypocrisy and cheating. The museum's Akhlaq and Mu'amalat Browser gathers everything the Qur'an, the Sunnah, the seerah and every harvested book records about them ^{2 3}.