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The Relation of Ethics to Creed in Shaykh Saʿīd ibn Khalfān al-Khalīlī

Ṣilat al-Akhlāq bi-al-ʻAqīdah ladá al-Shaykh Saʻīd ibn Khalfān al-Khalīlī

صلة الأخلاق بالعقيدة لدى الشيخ سعيد بن خلفان الخليلي

Khalīl ibn Muḥammad ibn Rāshid al-Ḥawqānī
خليل بن محمد بن راشد الحوقاني
Conference: The Ninth International Conference in Malaysia: The Omani Role in Promoting Ethics between Theory and Practice — Kuala Lumpur, 2025
Romanized conference title: al-Muʼtamar al-Duwalī al-Tāsiʻ bi-Mālīziyā: al-Dawr al-ʻUmānī fī Taʻzīz al-Akhlāq bayna al-Tanẓīr wa-al-Taṭbīq
Language of the paper: Arabic — this page presents the English metadata layer.
Permanent citation ID: MHF-AKHLAQ2025-034

Abstract

It is evident from the heritage of al-ʿAllāmah Saʿīd ibn Khalfān al-Khalīlī that creed is not a matter of disputation and sterile debate yielding no ethical benefit or effect on conduct; rather creed is in its foundation a prepared road for correcting human conduct and elevating character. This is what should truly be drawn out from the presentation of doctrinal questions in the works of the scholars of theology: the extraction of the effect of that creed upon a person's ethics and acts, whether in relation to his Lord, to himself, or to other people. In his encyclopaedic writings, when treating doctrinal questions, al-Khalīlī connected true faith with its corresponding practical conduct, so that faith is never stripped of its practical content. A believer's faith in God and his knowledge of the inviolability of killing his brother, and that the consequence is eternity in the Fire, affects his conduct and character and restrains him from such a crime; and likewise his belief in the inviolability of theft, of trespass on the rights of others, and of other prohibitions, forms an inner restraint arising from the effect of creed.

Keywords

Saʿīd ibn Khalfān al-KhalīlīCreed and ethicsIslamic theologyIbāḍī thoughtMoral conductOmani heritage

How to cite

Ḥawqānī, Khalīl ibn Muḥammad ibn Rāshid. "Ṣilat al-Akhlāq bi-al-ʻAqīdah ladá al-Shaykh Saʻīd ibn Khalfān al-Khalīlī" [The Relation of Ethics to Creed in Shaykh Saʿīd ibn Khalfān al-Khalīlī]. Paper presented at al-Muʼtamar al-Duwalī al-Tāsiʻ bi-Mālīziyā: al-Dawr al-ʻUmānī fī Taʻzīz al-Akhlāq bayna al-Tanẓīr wa-al-Taṭbīq, Kuwālā Lumbūr, 2025. MHF-AKHLAQ2025-034

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