How To Reawaken Internal Guidance And The Innate Voice That Allah Sent Us With?
Unless someone has knowingly and repeatedly suppressed their voice of conscience and completely killed it, it’s always there to guide us no matter how subtle its amplitude. When we consciously understand our own selves and start to discipline our actions accordingly, we begin to strengthen our voice of conscience. In fact, the act of disciplining ourselves within the bounds defined by our nature (fitrah) and further explained by God through His prophets is in fact practicing taqwa. The best way to achieve taqwa is by trying to remain aware of our own behavior. By default, a lot of our behavior is driven by our subconscious mind, however, consciously scrutinizing this behavior is what raises it to the level of awareness so that we can learn from it and make corrections where needed. Ghamidi sahab suggests, and I second his opinion, that nightly self accountability is the best way to keep our behavior in check. When we judge our own behavior and ask ourselves ‘what made me act in a particular way’ it helps us to understand our own selves better, strengthens our voice of conscience, and with willingness to improve, helps us guide our future actions accordingly. The following video is very helpful in understanding what hurdles we as humans face in achieving our desired selves: https://youtu.be/2iCdzbpXWfM
@faisalharoon Since there was no answer on… How to teach someone a method to reawaken or listen to internal guidance of “One God” and get in touch with the innate voice or basic instinct to distinguish right from wrong, I will try to attempt to answer my own question after lot of deliberation. ——————————- There is no such thing as a process, a method, a “Maraqba”, years of meditation in a cave, spinning for hours or turning into a Sadhu to get in touch with the internal voice/guidance that Allah gave us before he sent us in this world for this test. A person just need to sit down and think with sincerity 1. GOD’S EXISTENCE: No one can deny god’s existence. Everyone believes in god, it is just that they call the god with different names, a force, randomness, nature, etc. We observe creation all around us as a proof of a creator. 2. ONE GOD: Having one god of the universe is the only mathematical and logical conclusion for someone if someone was born in a jungle without parents and never influenced by any other human. -ZERO GOD: We established earlier that no one can say there is no god, because we see the creation all around us. -MULTIPLE GODS: No one can say there are multiple gods. Then the next question comes up, how many gods? If multiple gods, where did the person get this information. Is the source of information reliable? Is the information reliable? Did the information come from god? Since there will be no good answers to these questions, the only remaining answer will be that there is only one god. 3. INNATE KNOWLEDGE OF RIGHT FROM WRONG: Our sense of physical and mental pain and suffering is the innate guide to tell us what is right and what is wrong. Everyone knows how pain feels and innately knows that giving someone pain is wrong. This comes from our childhood. If we follow holistically this instinct of not giving others physical or psychological pain is exactly the teachings of Islam’s. Beyond this we also have an innate sense of justice or sense for the law of equivalence. If someone gives us pain, we expect that person to feel that pain too so he would stop. It will be unjust if someone gives us pain and continue to have fun. This brings the concept of “Jaza” and “Saza” —————————————————————————- If following the above innate knowledge a person goes out to search for god, an authentic message, a true god, a true religion, only Islam at this time seems to meet all the requirements of the innate guidance. ———————————————————— So, if someone selects Islam and starts learning about Islam he/she may say…if Islam’s guidance is based on feeling of physical and psychological pains then why does, for example, Islam prohibits consensual sex? For consensual sex, perhaps for the moment or in the near future, it may seems that it doesn’t hurt anyone. But god knows better. In the long run not only those two, but many other person suffer psychologically. The prevalence of consensual sex promotes unfaithfulness, undesired and uncared children, prohibits formation of families and formation of strong bonds to give each other company or to take care of each other and much more. Same logic goes for all other things that are prohibited in Islam that apparently don’t seem to cause any physical or psychological pain, but in the long run they do.