The current study aims to identify the concept of morals and education in Imam Al-Ghazali’s thought, and the relationship between the moral structure and education to him. The study adopted the descriptive analytical inductive method. The study concluded that Imam Al-Ghazali found the forces that control the structure and system of morals which are: a. power of thought, b. power of lust and c. power of anger, Al-Ghazali was not satisfied with his attempt to explain these forces, but he also explained how this system works through the work of every force alone. The study found that Imam Al-Ghazali paid attention to education since morals could be changed by education. The study also highlighted the criterion controlling the structure of morals and education which is conscience; even Al-Ghazali didn’t call it by this name. Conclusion: Al-Ghazali believes in a difference of powers, faculties, and preparations, and in cultivating self with all methods he suggested, and he is the educator who started with himself then began to display the conclusion of his thoughts, reflections, and study. Among other important principles is that virtues are a qualitative form of the will that finds its center and example in the characteristics of the Most Beautiful Names of God. Those characteristics are allowed to be adopted in the limits of capacity, and the theoretical knowledge of the behavior science isn’t enough to change from the evil state to the good one but only by the combination of will and determination with cognition since will represents the kinesthetic component of behavior. According to Al-Ghazali, virtue always lies in the middle, because he assumed that the line of virtue and vice is one; so if we are exactly in the middle, we are in virtue, and if we are on both ends of the line, so we are in a vice.
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