RELEVANT METAPHYSICAL PROBLEMS

 

 Quranic Foundations And Structure Of Muslim Society

RELEVANT METAPHYSICAL PROBLEMS

 

Moral consciousness seeks not only the Moral Good but also the realisation of the Moral Ideal, which consists in the triumph of moral good and the defeat of moral evil.

 

Both of these problems are ethical in character. But their solutions necessitate a metaphysics. Because they cannot be solved without a proper solution of the relevant problems concerning the nature, function and purpose of man, of the world & the existence and Attributes of God, and the bearing of those Attributes on the working of the world and the life of man.

 

Now, in respect of the realisation of the moral ideal, the question emerges: what are the conditions that make it possible?

 

The answer that presents itself to the human reason is: The foremost condition is that man ought to be free to realise that ideal. But even if he is free, he cannot realise such a grand ideal in his short span of earthly life and with the obstacles that he has to face within and around him. He must, therefore, be immortal. But even if he is immortal, the realisation of the ideal remains inconceivable unless the world is so constituted as to admit of success in his moral struggle. But that it can be only if it has been created for that very purpose. The duality in human nature, however, which forms the internal obstacle in the realisation of the moral ideal, and the existence of insurmountablc difficulties which seem to be embedded in the life of the world, both give the impression of incompatibility with it. Hence the need from the moral point of view for an all-Perfect Being, Who could, out of sheer Grace, remove this disharmony and incompatibility. That is, the realisation of the moral ideal would be possible only if God exists.

 

Thus: Freedom of the Will, Immortality of Man, Creation of the World, its Harmony with the Moral Struggle, and the Existence of God and His Gracious Interference to lead Man to success, are the metaphysical implications of the realisation of the moral ideal, and form, therefore, the Metaphysical Basis of the Moral Code,—or, in other words, the Metaphysics of Morals.

 

In the discussion of these verities, we shall proceed, on the basis of the Holy Qur’an, under the basic classification of Man, World and God.

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