Is There A "Fitrah" Innate Guidance
Yes, science isn’t everything, absolutely true. My argument is simple, if there’s an innate guidance then we should’ve seen it abundantly in archeological records, philosophical history, psychological investigations. Because fitrah or nature isnt something anyone can hide, it just oozes through everything one does or thinks. Tauheed is absent from religions we came to know from archeological findings, excavation studies, studies of aboriginals from Africa, Australia. I do not understand how can man go against his nature globally throughout history?? We find monotheism in all religious texts (likely from revelation from Allah) but not when man tried to understand the universe on his own. Beside innate guidance should guide us in the most basic morality. We don’t find it either. Earlier man killed his older family members to preserve food supply, man and women remain naked unless in winter. Still aboriginals in australia do not cover themselves because it their climate they dont need to! I ask you why the innate guidance didnt tell these people to honor their parents or cover their bodies?? the absolute basics of morality? regarding the ayahs you mentioned, yes, if you read them separately it does indicate an innate nature but in context it doesn’t 7:172-173 plz read from 159, its narrating the history of Bani Israel, how Allah kept giving them chances and they kept disobeying Allah. Ayah 171: And ˹remember˺ when We raised the mountain over them as if it were a cloud and they thought it would fall on them. ˹We said,˺ “Hold firmly to that ˹Scripture˺ which We have given you and observe its teachings so perhaps you will become mindful ˹of Allah Ponder the sequence, does it make any sense if we believe 172 is telling us about an innate guidance? How could bani Israel remember the covenant? None of us remember that! it was told to them in the scripture or by their prophets and they were reminded of that fact rather than something else 30:30 Allah talking about His signs around us and then in ayah 30 Allah asking Muhammad SA ( And all of us) to follow the Deen of Allah! Thats what Allah called it “His nature” upon which He created all of mankind. Immediately after Allah tells us that this is the correct deen. I don’t see how can we put an innate nature idea in this sequence. Brother Nadeem, may I ask what translation are you using? Plz compare a word to word translation from Quran.com to your translation, i do feel its skipping and rotating few words Allah put consciousness in us and a yearning in us to look for meaning and tauheed makes most sense to us if we look into it but thats a “choice” we have to make to understand tauheed. There’s no innate guidance that will take us to tauheed or only be satisfied with tauheed. Neither fitrah is something that can guide us on its own. It needs the torch of Wahee to find its true nature, the deen of Allah. (plz refer to tabbadur al quran as well) I didn’t understand the rest of the ayahs you mentioned, also couldnt understand how the word “Al-bayan” be translated as “to distinguish” 55:4
Brother Faraz, please read my response in the other thread where we started this topic. I think you are jumping basics and going streight to advance with the examples of marrying sisters or eating dog meat. Those are not part of Fitrah in my opinion. I think Firtah gives you basics to put you on the right path. It is like someone telling you to walk on this road. From that point you have to travel on that road to learn more. Please read my post in the original thread. Fitrah will only direct a person to the path of Islam. All the other stuff you learn from Quran thereafter, such as not marry sisters or not eat dog meat. As Allah said in Quran to humans that he is sending them to earth and then he will send his guidance and whoever will follow his guidance will be successful. He didn’t say everything is in Fitrah.