Moral Education and Economic Growth from the Islam’s View

Moral education is: to create cognition and to stimulate one's feeling, so that one's behavioral ugliness and negative traits are removed and positive traits and moral values are internalized and sustained. This article examines the effects of Islamic moral education on economic growth and how can these effects be explained by using an interpretive-analytical method. According to the research hypothesis, Islamic moral education leads to increasing economic growth and based on the research findings, the ethical education in question includes rational education in the domain of theoretical reason, rational education in the domain of intrinsic rationality, rational education in the domain of instrumental rationality, Islamic asceticism, and accumulation. Implementation of Islamic education at each of these stages has a positive effect on economic behavior and fosters economic growth.