Morality and ethics are can be either secular/humanist or simply non-religious, as we witness in the predominant philosophical approaches in modern Western history. Religious ethics of course can be distinguished from these approaches as we see in treatments, say, of Jewish, Christian, and Buddhist ethics. The Tibetan Buddhist Dalai Lama, a prominent figure or leader in Buddhism (i.e., even among other Buddhist schools and traditions), has repeatedly stated that morality and ethics need not rely on religion, although there are undoubtedly some religious persons who adamantly believe that religious ethics (of their particular tradition or worldview) should crowd out (if only because it is seen as inherently superior to) non-religious ethics, thereby blithely dismissing the need and significance of morality and ethics amongst the many people in are world who are non-religious. It would appear to be in accordance with a principle of philosophical charity to forthrightly acknowledge that religious ethics and non-religious ethics can and should coexist (be the latter termed secular, humanist, atheist, or agnostic, for example, although there are some folks today who insist they are ‘spiritual but not religious,’ and they too thus are in need of a secular morality and ethics).

All of this is by way of an introduction/apologia to my post, Introducing Islamic Morality & Ethics: A Reading Guide, believing as I do that of the many moral and ethical values, principles and practices found in so-called global or major or long-standing religious worldviews around our planet, this is perhaps the least known. Of course you need not share that belief to benefit from basic knowledge of morality and ethics among among Muslims who are distributed not only throughout the Middle East and Southeast Asia, but around the world more widely.