What is Islamic about “Islamic Ethics”?
Great poets ponder the human condition and distill wisdom in pithy lines that reflect the greatness and fragility of this being human. Ahmad Shawqi, the Prince of [Arab] Poets, bequeathed us such a pearl of wisdom: انما الامم الاخلاق ما بقيت فان هموا ذهبت اخلاقهم ذهبوا (Nations are nothing but their ethics; once their ethics lost, nations are no longer).
