The Values of Moral Education in Imam Al-Ghazali’s Minhajul Abidin
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https://doi.org/10.67899/ar.v3i2.469Keywords:
Moral Education, Al-Ghazali, Minhajul Abidin, Islamic EducationAbstract
This study examines the values of moral education presented in Imam al-Ghazali’s Minhajul Abidin and considers their relevance to contemporary Islamic education. It employs a descriptive qualitative design based on documentary study, reading the primary text alongside supporting literature and analyzing the material through qualitative content analysis. The findings indicate that the book organizes spiritual and moral development through seven successive stages: knowledge, repentance, obstacles, impediments, motivating forces, moral corruptions, and gratitude. Across these stages, the text foregrounds sincerity, God-consciousness, self-discipline, patience, humility, gratitude, repentance, trust, and responsibility toward other people. The study’s contribution is an integrative reading of the seven stages as a pedagogical sequence linking knowledge, inner transformation, and observable conduct across relationships with God, the self, and society. The analysis is textual and conceptual; it does not claim to measure educational outcomes in contemporary classrooms.
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