The Universality of Mutual Respect and Humility in the Al-Quran: Towards the Construction of a Value-Based Arabic Grammar

Abstract

The formation of Universal Social Moral Values (USMV) is considered as one of the backbone of the Malaysian education curriculum to create harmonious individuals living in the society regardless of religion, race and belief. Nevertheless, the inculcation of these social moral values is not clearly seen in the Arabic grammar curriculum even though the main source for the curriculum comes from the al-Quran, which is loaded with values. On that account, this research analyses verses of the al-Quran containing USMV. At the same time, this research attempts to prove the universality of these values, the matching of community values according to the major religions in Malaysia such as Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism. To achieve these objectives, a qualitative approach through content analysis is used to describe the USMV that takes place deductively and inductively in the al-Quran. The findings of the study reveal that Mutual Respect and Humility are two universal social moral values in the Malaysian context that may be used as curriculum material for Arabic-Quranic Grammar in the framework of value-based education.

The Graciousness, Tolerance and Affection in Al-Quran through A Value-Based Arabic Syntax

“…86 components were discovered under the four main clusters which are: 1) the commitment to obey a higher entity than oneself which consists of five components, 2) a virtue personality by upholding self-respect, discipline and responsibility consisting of 18 values, 3) respect and love for other people consisting of 33 values, and 4) caring for the environment and living things in nature has two values. Similarly, the study of Ismail et al (2022) revealed that there are 8 verses of the Quran from 6 surahs related to Mutual Respect and 3 verses of the Quran from 2 surahs related to Humility as USMV in the Malaysian context that can be used as curriculum material for Arabic-Quranic grammar in the framework of value-based education.…”

“…Therefore, this study attempts to further develop the study of shahid al-Quran by exploring the explicit and implicit meanings behind the USMV messages as recommended by Rajab et al (2016) who stated that the al-Quran is loaded with values. In order to prove that there is USMV in the Qur'an, this study will analyze syntactically based on Arabic grammar themes that bring USMV in accordance with the methodology of Ismail et al (2022) who issued USMV (Mutual Respect and Humility) consist of declarative noun phrases and declarative, command, prohibition, and expectation verb phrases. Then, this study will try to fill out the gaps and fulfil the needs following the government's aspirations through the National Education Philosophy that emphasize value-based education.…”

“…Therefore, numerous recommendations need to be made to inculcate universal moral values into Arabic Language learning (Musling et al, 2022), in addition to master the language skills such as reading, writing and speaking (Mohamad et al, 2017). This is due to the fact that Arabic teaching and learning which is based on Quranic verses will not only help Muslim students understand the Qur'an but will also subtly push them to put some moral principles into reality in their daily lives (Ismail et al, 2022).…”