Is There A "Fitrah" Innate Guidance
Brother Faraz, you are assuming that one realizes fitrzh and the person follows it too. That rarely happens. An examples. I was trying to make a hole in an object in my hand with a knife. My internal voice told me repeatedly that the knife will slip and impale my hand. I ignored the voice and next the knife impaled my hand. Anyone can hear the internal voice, but people normally ignore it. The voice tells right from wrong, but we ignore it by overwhelming it by our logic, reasoning and overconfidence. Whether there is a voice telling us that there is only one god? I don’t know. But I always imagined one god even when I was an atheist. Perhaps my thoughts were influenced because I was born in a Muslim family. Dr. Zakir Naik refers to a study of Australian aborigines or Amazonians. They had no outside influence, yet they believed in one god. To prove if the voice exists to tell us about one God, I earlier asked the question, how to awaken that voice. With some hard work, everyone should be able to hear that voice. I haven’t heard from anyone a method to achive the level to hear the internal voice.
I watched 3 videos and I would highly highly recommend watching it and then watch it again. I haven’t found anything different than what I said, potential for tauheed and good / evil is innate but need external influence and effort to materialize.(seed bears the whole tree) an example mentioned multiple times by Ghamidi sahab. The concept of tauheed, good/bad, beauty, haya is innate and we understand it immediately when presented with it. However, innate fitrah can not guide without revelation. For e.g revelation has to tell us that eating dog meat is haram and marrying 2 sisters at the same time is haram. Our fitrah can not decide alone. Thank you brother Nadeem for starting the discussion and Jaza’k Allah brother Faisal for suggesting the videos