A Teleological Account of Ethics in the light of Narrated Hadith

In his article, the author has adopted an interpretive-descriptive method in order to deal with the teleological account of ethics in the light of the Qur’an and hadith. Having made conceptual analysis in a few key terms of ethics in narrated texts, he went to give an account of the stages of moral life in the light of those narrated texts. In the logic of the Qur’an, man’s moral life begins with servitude to God being itself the fruit of self-purification and a position to attain. Through salvation, man might have God’s pleasure and thus get closer to God. Man might be filled with ultimate and eternal happiness when man is let to reside in heaven for good; since this high position defies description, might only be stated in a metaphorical language. As per the Qur’anic teachings and hadiths, following the stages of divine servitude and piety paves the way for man’s ascension to the higher grades of proximity to God; this spiritual ascension is only promising through the acquisition of Godly characteristics. As a result and in a teleological account, we can illustrate the desired outcome of moral life in the eternal life of the hereafter.