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Ethics is not a separate topic like other theological topics such as divinity, prophethood and eschatalogy dealt with in Kalam books. Ethical issues are generally discussed in terms of acts of Allah and human in different parts of Kalam books. At this point, there are two prominent theological approaches dominated by Ash'arite and Mu'tazilî scholars. In ethics, Ash'arite scholars defend their position by relying on revelation while Mu'tazila used reasoning to defend theirs. Unfortunately, historically the lively discussions between these two denominations overshadowed Maturidi sect. In this paper, we will try to analyze and uncover Maturidi's thoughts especially regarding basic matters in ethics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Man is a socio-cultural being. In this sense Man is a human being with his environment; that is, he acquires the status of being a real human as a result of his gains from the natural and sociocultural environment where he exists. Besides, humans are endowed with many biological, mental and spritiual abilities, they do not acquire them later. Man also has innate moral-religious abilities and one of them is "creation/fıtrah". According to a great majority of Islamic scholars, creation is the consciousness of existence and uniqueness of God that is temperamental in all human beings while Man is a believing being as well as a thinking one in the common agreement of psychologists and psychologists of Religion. This feature of believing is inherent but the framework of this ability has not been determined yet. On the other hand, cultural anthropology asserts that Man acquires moral and intellectual characteristics within the socio-cultural environment where he exists and therefore Man does not have any universal or common ethics and religious values. This paper will discuss the relationship between the Human nature and belief and dwell upon whether there is a moral-religious property being innate in Man or not, and if there is, what the characteristics of this property will be. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]