The foundational ethical values tree produced the first globally recognized Islamic educational values system, both legally and scientifically, for Islamic values education at the pre-university level.
The Tree of Islamic Values
Good news for the Islamic world: the design of the first value system that expresses the authentic global Islamic identity of Islamic societies and the Arab and non-Arab countries that represent them. It is suitable for global application, to represent the foundational educational structure for global Islamic unity, and to produce a new global Islamic generation that is raised and grows in the villages, cities and regions of the world, and in the embrace of diverse global cultures and identities, but it retains its distinctiveness, strength, solidity and universality. Thus, the Egyptian child grows up on the tree of Islamic values on which the same Iraqi, Palestinian, American, French, British, Chinese, Korean, Malaysian and Brazilian children are raised and grow up. They are united by a tree of values and a unified global Islamic value system, divinely sourced from the wellspring of the Holy Qur’an and the purified Sunnah. It is an identity-based value system for building educational values, prepared according to a qualitative scientific methodology, and formulated in the form of a tree of values with its four stages.
The most prominent writings on the foundational tree of moral values
Tree of Moral Values
At our school, Al-Safa Basic Mixed School, we don't just teach our students reading, writing, arithmetic, and science. We teach them and instill in them high moral values, values taught to us by our true Islamic religion and our noble Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him. We were raised on these values, and we raise our dear children and students on them. These are our values and these are our morals, the tree of moral values in our school.
"The Tree of Values"... This is what we learned from the "Mother of the Emirates"
The “Tree of Values,” which adorns one side of the “Mother of the Emirates” pavilion, has been a major attraction for many festival visitors.
The “Tree of Values,” which adorns one side of the “Mother of the Emirates” pavilion, has become an attraction for many festival visitors. Visitors of different nationalities and ages, as soon as the festival opened to the public, came to record the values they learned from the life and career of the “Mother of the Emirates,” Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, or from the Emirates through its stances and achievements in various fields.
A picture of a tree on which a set of moral values were hung, nicknamed the "Tree of Moral Values".
Source of description: Salwa Al-Zananiri (former principal of Rawdat Al-Zuhur School), interview with researcher Lama Ghosheh, September - October 2019. Salwa Al-Zananiri (former principal of Rawdat Al-Zuhur School), WhatsApp conversation with researcher Lama Ghosheh, 2019.
The concept of moral values was also described on the Mawdoo3 website, which mentioned some details such as
Definition of Moral Values: Values are the plural of value, derived from the concepts of rectification and correction, and they refer to lofty social ideals and principles.[1] In Islam, ethics are defined as: the principles and rules that govern human behavior, established through divine revelation, with the aim of achieving the ultimate purpose of human existence.[2] Moral values are a system comprised of lofty principles and meanings derived from the Quran and Sunnah, in accordance with human nature, acquired through a precise understanding of the Islamic religion, and which regulates interactions between people, leading the individual and society to happiness in this world and the hereafter.[1]
"Why haven't moral values taken root in Arab soil?"
From an article published in Al-Watan newspaper
Why did this lofty moral tree, the "Quranic-Muhammadan" tree, not plant its strong roots in the soil of Arab societies?! Why did it not bear its desired fruits, except during the periods of flourishing of Islamic civilization?!
The civilization of Muslims, a civilization of cities, was based on civic values and the voluntary efforts of people in establishing public facilities and providing community services such as education, training, health, social, religious and financial affairs (endowments, mosques, schools, zawiyas, takiyas, hospitals, guilds, crafts and the efforts of scholars), as documented by Dr. Hussein Mounis in his remarkable panoramic book “The World of Islam.” Islam is the religion of science and civilization, according to Sheikh Muhammad Abduh, so why has the tree of Islamic moral values not blossomed and borne fruit, over a thousand years and to this day?
Is there a difference between values and morals? The most beautiful thing that distinguishes a person is his adherence to values and his good morals, and it is even purer for the morals of society to be all good. The words values and morals are often mentioned together, until it has become common for them to be synonymous and intertwined in any social educational discussion or dialogue.