Construction of Moral Education According to Hamka in Al-Azhar Commentary

Abstract

Moral (akhlak) education is an important thing in education that aims to create children with good and noble character. However, it turns out that there are still many moral problems that children do, even though children are considered the future generation for their family, their religion, and their nation. The problems that many children do are acts of violence, lying, seeking, drugs, and so on. It is necessary to provide proper education so that children have good principles or guidelines in their lives. Al-Qur'an is the word of Allah SWT which was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad SAW, which can be a life guide for humans in managing life, in order to obtain inner and outer happiness and have good morals for their lives. This study aims to find out the contents of moral (akhlak) education in Al-Qur'an, especially Luqman verses 12-19. This study was a library research. The data sources used included various kinds of literature such as books, Al-Azhar commentary book and scientific journals related to the study topic. The content of the educational material involved here was regarding the role of parents in family education contained in Surah Lukman verses 12-19 according to Hamka's commentary in Al-Azhar Commentary. The authors found and analysed several points, namely teaching about instilling monotheism, being grateful, devoted to both parents, istiqomah in goodness, upholding prayers, amar ma'ruf nahi mungkar, being patient in facing trials, being simple in life, and polite in communicating.