Islam highly emphasizes character that becomes the substance of the religion. The character used as the basis of the education system in Islam. Character education is an attempt to make influence the soul of the students to inculcate morals, to shape the human personality and virtuous in accordance with the teachings of Islam. Character education becomes essential for life. Characters are formed by at least covers : religious, honest, tolerant, disciplined, hard-working, creative, independent spirit of nationalism, patriotism, recognize excellence, friendship/communicative, love peace, love reading, environmental care, social care and responsibility. These values are a form of social piety which must be actualized in the education system so that they can ward off the crisis and stem the multidimensional towards the formation of personal morality. The characters must be actualized in the education system so as to form a virtuous man. Keywords : characters, personal morality, social piety. AbstrakIslam sangat mengedepankan karakter sehingga menjadi substansi ajaran agamanya. Karakter dijadikan dasar sistem pendidikan dalam Islam. Pendidikan karakter merupakan usaha mempengaruhi jiwa anak didik untuk menanamkan akhlak sehingga terbentuklah manusia yang berkepribadian dan berbudi luhur sesuai dengan ajaran Islam. Pendidikan karakter menjadi penting bagi kehidupan. Karakter yang dibentuk minimal mencakup: religius, jujur,toleran, disiplin, kerja keras, kreatif, mandiri, Semangat kebangsaan, cinta tanah air, menghargai Prestasi, bersahabat/komunikatif, cinta damai, gemar membaca, peduli lingkungan, peduli sosial dan tanggung jawab. Nilai-nilai ini merupakan bentuk kesalehan sosial yang harus diaktualisasikan dalam sistem pendidikan sehingga mampu menepis dan membendung krisis multidimensi menuju terbentuknya pribadi yang berakhlak mulia. Karakter harus diaktualisasikan dalam sistem pendidikan sehingga terbentuk manusia yang berbudi luhur.Kata kunci: Karakter, akhlak mulia, kesalehan sosial. | Ali Mudlofir A. PendahuluanDiakui dalam berbagai aspek, pendidikan di negeri ini mengalami kemajuan. Sarana dan prasarana sekolah terus mengalami perbaikan. Peningkatan anggaran pendidikan jelas wujud nyata dari tekad pemerintah untuk memajukan dunia pendidikan. Prestasi pelajar dan mahasiswa di berbagai ajang kompetisi nasional maupun internasional juga membanggakan. Generasi penerus itu setidaknya mampu membuat dada para orang tua mengembang bangga karena anak-anak bangsa ini ternyata mampu berkiprah di forum internasional.Sebagai contoh dari statemen di atas Andy Octavian Latief siswa SMAN 1 Pamekasan berhasil meraih emas di Olimpiade Fisika Internasional ke-37 di Singapura; Firmansyah Kasim, siswa SMP Islam At} irah Makasar juga sudah dua kali memperoleh juara Olimpiade Fisika Internasional mewakili Indonesia; Irwan Ade Putra,Pelajar SMAN 1 Pekanbaru ini sudah dua kali meraih emas di Apho Kazakhstan dan Ipho Singapura, Olimpiade IPTEK Internasional, International Sustainable World Energy, Engineering & Environment ...

The study is aimed at exploring the Qur’anic concept of education. It argues that the Qur’an mostly speaks of education in terms of character-building and tries to inculcate noble values upon human being in such a way that the good characters may be attained. Hence, the paper is of an argument that the Qur’anic concept of education is ethical; it imposes ethical values upon human being. But the aspect of ethics that the paper will be speaking is that which has to do with ethics in social interaction. The paper will look at some key terms that the Qur’an uses to infer to this social interaction which include qaulan sadida, qaulan ma’rufa, qaulan baligha, qaulan masysura, qaulan karima, and qaulan layyina. To offer a better explanation of what social interaction is all about, the paper will address and invoke some social setting in which people interact one another. In other words, the argument of the paper will be invalidated by the social facts found on the ground. This study is thus both normative and empirical.

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