A Review of the Relationship between Religion and Morality

This paper seeks to explain the relationship between religion and morality. Morality is a part of religion and according to this view, morality has a religious character. Sometimes, by religion it is meant the content of the Holy Qur’an and Sunnah which consist of beliefs, morality and practical instructions. According to this view, religious morality refers to the ethical propositions in the books of religion. Morality refers to the good and bad characteristics and behavior, and one of the ways of recognizing them is referring to the Holy Qur’an and Sunnah. According to this view, religious morality is the morality for which has devotional and religious basis.
But in current ethics, morality, in addition to characteristics and habits, consists of behavior; and, in addition to good and bad characteristics, any voluntary act, good or bad, is considered as a moral value which, not only has devotional grounds but is demonstrable, too, because every man, seeks after perfection by nature. Therefore, perfection-seeking and truth-seeking, and attempting to acquire knowledge and awareness is a natural thing and an existential necessity, due to the fact that all people seek after perfection and happiness. Therefore, most propositions and moral values can be recognized by resting on rational and devotional evidence and they have reasonable grounds.