Title

Morality

Authors

Liyakat Takim
James Gaffney

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The Qur’an asks human beings to establish a just social order and to create morally upright individuals. The obligation to act morally arises from human obligation to repay it’s debt to the Creator. Verse 7:172 in the Qur’an indicates that human beings had not only accepted to obey God’s dictates in a primordial covenant but also suggests that they agreed to behave in a morally responsible manner. Because they are moral agents, human beings are free to choose between virtue or vice.

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Recommended Citation

Takim, Liyakat and Gaffney, James, "Morality" (2021). Muslim-Christian Dialogues. 23.
https://ir.stthomas.edu/encounteringislam/23