Goodly Life: a Moral life towards Manifestation of Divine Attributes

In the view of the Holy Quran, the real life is the life which God has decreed and it is accessible to all creatures. The world of creation is a manifestation of God's merciful blessing and the way through which every creature can achieve its perfection. Man, too, can achieve his perfection, i.e., the station of God's vicegerence and manifestation of divine attributes, through divine mercy. The life which God considers to be a goodly life is a manifestation of the true divine life which is free from any kinds of evil and begins with faith and good deed in order to draw man nigh to his God in the stages of perfection. Using a descriptive-analytical method and the Quranic verses and referring to the sources of religious books, the present paper expounds on how divine attributes are manifested in goodly life and cast light on its systematic relationship with such positive attributes as faith, good deed and guardianship and such negative attributes as negating God-centeredness, neglecting hereafter and death, and pursuing one's whims.