Is There A "Fitrah" Innate Guidance
Thank you brother Faisal I saw these already but will listen to it again The idea is good and seem plausible but there’s just no evidence and if there’s innate fitrah of good or bad then there should be tons of data and Quran and Hadith would be full of references but they aren’t. Nafs e Lawamma was mentioned once, we acquire that nafs much later in life Thanks for your input
Yes brother Nadeem, I did read your response. I disagree that fitrah gives u any basics to put one on the right path. Fitrah, is nothing but an innate sense of meaning, a potential or ability to arrive at the truth if given proper environment/education etc. Thats why people find meaning in all sort of different paths. We can say that those people’s fitrah is corrupted but they can say the same exact thing about us!! Whatever we say corrupted their fitrah also applies to us from their perspective. I didn’t jump from basics, I read it in this forum that fitrah can guide in religious matters (I am paraphrasing) so I gave an example that it can not guide on its own Ghamidi sahab’s opinion that people are answerable because of this fitrah is hard to understand because this fitrah is very easily corrupted by so many influences. I can not disagree with him cuz it’ll be like a bicycle trying to outrun an aeroplane He speaks from a religious perspective, man was given wahi after he was made aware of his fitrah (adam and eve in jannah). Because man is made answerable thats why Allah guided his fitrah by wahi in contrast to other form of knowledge which evolved slowly over hundreds of years. His explanation makes lot of sense. However, it all falls apart when we look at available historical records (archeology, philosophy etc) to-date, in egyptology, there is no archeological evidence for existence of Yusuf AS or Musa AS or exodus ever happening. No evidence doesn’t mean its false but it also doesn’t mean its true! If Ghamidi sahab’s viewpoint is true we should be able to have a historical narrative of this guidance always present during different periods of human existence. Yes, we do find tauheed in all major religions like hinduism, chinese philosophy etc but its too scarce. But its definitely there! In summary, we have consciousness that enable us to ask questions and innately accepts and understand tauheed and morality. But its very easily corrupted by external influences and hence, required proper guidance to find its true nature. On its own, fitrah can not guide neither provide basis for anything.