Reconciling Faith, Suffering And Fitrah
Humans obey the law of the land they live in, despite the facts that they may object certain ways of injustice which their governments adopt. They criticise their governments yet they pay them tax and obey the law and if they commit an offence they are punished and they accept it too. This is what humans are actually doing. Nothing different is demanded by Islam. God has a grand scheme, where suffering and piety will be compensated. The requisites of test cannot avoid the suffering. This is the God’s choice for us. When it is said the there is nothing against fitrah in Islam it means believing in the creator and the hereafter and the injunctions of shariah. The divine scheme is not a part of our fitrah. That scheme is designed by God and has been launched and we have to pass through it.