Definition Of Good Character Idead By Imam Al-Ghazali

Definition of good character given by Imam Al-Ghazali was based on the Prophet’s Hadith. The Prophet Muhammad PBUH said, ‘A man once asked the Prophet of God about good character, and he recited His statement: Hold to forgiveness, and enjoin kindness, and turn aside from the ignorant ones. Then he said. ‘It is that you should seek reconciliation with those who avoid you, given to those withhold from you and forgive those who deal with you unjustly.’
Man does not need to supress their natural faculties of desire and anger because it is impossible. According to Imam Al-Ghazali, man only need to control their faculties of soul to be moderate. This could be achieved and attained by man through moral training. However, man are different from each
Be friend with the pious people, gain knowledge and keep company of oneself with a spiritual guide (shaykh). In addition, be quick to remove the evil by asking help from a spiritual guide just as he seeks help from a doctor in curing his disease. A true guide is Gnostic (arif), who is an intelligent, a seer of the soul’s diseases, kind-hearted, admonishes other in religion, purified his own soul from evil traits. Common man do not know the way and the diseases of the soul, the reason and causes behind it and ways and techniques to subtly remove the evil, hence they are in need of guidance. Next, to restore the health of the soul and spiritual self, the substance of the vice need to be cut off and remove it permanently from oneself by taking out its sources. Only by destroying the substance of the evil, the evil soul could be cured permanently. This can only be accomplished by removing the root of evils. The evil can be removed by contradicting the causes and roots of the evil, which has been said by Imam Al-Ghazali. It is the general rule of spiritual treatment. To know is to know the nature of an evil, what is the cause, what harm could it does in this life or hereafter. According to Imam Al-Ghazali, being against the cause of an evil by knowledge is called cognitive limit or ilaj ilmi. The next is the necessary action to get the evil out of oneself. It needs to be preserved and repeated for a long time. The aftermath is the evil will eliminate itself from the soul and the establishment of the soul will start to happen (soul interaction theory of