Fitrat/Qalb E Saleem
Seems like you’ve totally discounted the factors like wishes, whims, emotions, biases and needs which actually form a blanket of dust over one’s nature. Ones who acknowledge this fact, keep these factors in check and further groom this potential of nature, turn into Abu Bakar (rta), the ones who stand in enmity to truth because of their pride ancestry or other biases turn into Abu Jahl.
Sorry Faisal bhai I confused the terms. You’re right, I meant Aql E Salim or Qalb e Salim. @UmerQureshi thank you for mentioning this as this is directly related to my question. Now all the variables mentioned above along with the ones you have added, isn’t the task unnecessarily hard for some people? Especially those belonging to a specific area or a certain family background? While others have an unfair advantage? Even having a family where this potential of nature has several reasons as well as chances to groom and easily form a view that is very close to the book of God even before having to read it. This task still is the hardest. What about an individual who has practically in real life always witnessed a world contrary to that of what this life actually is. Just to bring him to the level where he uses his aql to challenge his surroundings. I mean isnt this all an unfair distribution?
No worries! As humans we are yet to invent any instruments that could measure and compare the magnitude of our internal struggles, but my personal feeling is that the combined magnitude of such struggles remains uniform across all humans regardless of their environments. Since I have no objective data to prove it, I’ll skip explaining it. That said, we must understand that this life when considered in isolation is not created on the principle of justice. It is rather created on the principle of test. In order for the test to take place, there has to be injustice in life. For example, if all humans were materially equal, how would the test of jealously ever take place? If you mentally go through the gymnastics of further extending the idea of equality, you will surely arrive at a point where the concept of a test will become completely irrelevant. In contrast, when we understand Quran’s viewpoint in this regard and appreciate that humans have been given free will, and try to holistically understand our lives on earth in the context of our lives in the hereafter , all of a sudden everything falls in place. In short, regardless of whatever injustices we see in this life, the ultimate results are bound to be completely just. I believe that I shared with you earlier Ghamidi sahab’s video explaining belief in the hereafter. The way that he has explained this concept from the Quran is absolutely phenomenal. I myself have heard that lecture thrice, and I’m not done yet! I wholeheartedly recommend anyone to listen to that a few times – I’m certain that like myself, you’ll also have an eureka moment that will put a lot of things into perspective.