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A constant fulcrum out To answer this, we must
through the analyses is the understand the relationship
relationship between the Self between God and the Self.
and God. It is the central Firstly, I will go through the
theme of both ethical thoughts, understanding of the Self and
and the greatest similarity God in the Islamic ethical
between them. Responsibility, system. To do this, I will look
free will, and choices were at the Quranic Verse:
some of the key words through “And We have already
the analyses of the ethical created man and know
thoughts, which indicate that what his soul whispers
humans must act, choose to to him, and We are
act, in accordance to living an closer to him than [his]
ethical life. jugular vein”. (Quran,
In the Islamic ethical 50: 16)
thought, we learned that only
actions based on free will can The Quranic Verse is a key
be judged as ethical actions. In example of the relationship
the works of Kierkegaard, we between the Self and God. In
were taught that only the the Verse, God explains, not
active choices, and the actions only how He created man and
performed on the base of knows what is within him; But
independent, self-reflective also places Himself closer than
choices, could be valued as the “jugular vein”. Being close
ethical; But what is the role of is not a physical distance; But
God then? If one has the a spiritual one. A distance
power to act ethically, the between the soul, or in this
power to choose to act, then case, the Self, and God.
why ask God to help one The well-known scholar,
achieve noble traits? Ibrahim Amini, explained in
his work Self-building, that the
human Self is “a single reality
but is the possessor of different
