Why God Will Never Forgive Shirk?
Thanks Faisal. I and many other feel that the concept of one God is not innate. I never felt that there is one god; instead I learned it. There is no objective study proving that. If the concept of one god and the concept of right and wrong was built into human nature, then there was no need for Allah’s guidance, holy books or prophets. Allah could have judged people based on compliance to their innate knowkege and guidance.
@Sonnadi I have personally not enjoyed objective Atheistic views on whether the sense of one God is an innate feature. In fairness, some of the popular Atheistic arguments do hold merit against the viewpoint that the sense of one God is innate. For example, one of the common arguments is expressed as, “which religion or which God should we begin with or follow? There are so many of them; all are claiming to be the rightful ones etc.”. However, I often find these arguments poor in taste due to the lack of genuine effort in the original query. These arguments are often deployed as counterattacks against the “primitive God-believing individuals”. Since “God” is a no-zone, one hardly observes a genuine effort made by hard-core Atheists of the modern world in this regard. However, we may be able to observe or collect data regarding individuals who may be Agnostic or similar etc. Regardless, I do not reach the conclusion that the sense of one God being innate implies that individuals deliberately attempt to commit shirk. This is because an individual’s intuition of something being right or wrong is likely to be influenced by external factors such as their upbringing, the environment, and the circumstances in which they are brought up, their subjective perception of the delights or sufferings of this world etc. Additionally, the merits of justice require that mere intuition of an individual ought neither to guarantee paradise nor hell. Instead, the actual effort of the individual, coupled with other factors such as his level of knowledge, ought to count. As I understand it, Islam also stresses upon the sincere effort of individuals in seeking the truth and fulfilling their rights in relation to others during this short-lived life.