HUMAN FITRAH & ISLAM “So set your face steadily and truly to the Faith: (establish) Allaah’s handiwork according to the pattern (fitrah) on which He has made mankind: no change (let there be) in the work (wrought) by Allaah: that is the standard Religion: but most among mankind understand not.” [al-Room 30:30 – ] Narrated Abu-Huraira: Allahs Apostle said, No child is born except on the fitra and then his parents make him Jewish, Christian or Magian (Zoroastrian), as an animal produces a perfect young animal: do you see any part of its body amputated? - Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 2, Book 23, Number 441 In Soorah Al-Araaf, Verses 172-173; Allah explained that when He created Adam, He caused all of Adams descendants to come into existence and took a pledge from them saying, Am I not your Lord? To which they all replied, Yes, we testify to It: If the child were left alone, he would worship Allah in his own way, but all children are affected by those things around them, seen or unseen. So, just as the child submits to the physical laws which Allah has put in nature, his soul also submits naturally to the fact that Allah is his Lord and Creator. But, his parents try to make him follow their own way and the child is not strong enough in the early stages of his life to resist or oppose the will of his parents. So according to islam each one is born knowing Allah or God,then afterwards either he retains his natural belief or it gets corrupted under the influence of others. Islam and our fitrah or in other words our natural inclinations are completely compatibel. The relationship is like fertile soil and seed which will be sown in it. Fitrah is a compass which is preinstalled in us before we are born. Because of this we know what is right and what is wrong. Islam only comes and confirms that fitrah which is in us,islam is actually based on it This fitrah is actually confirmed by some scientific research Dr Justin Barrett, a senior researcher at the University of Oxfords Centre for Anthropology and Mind, claims that young people have a predisposition to believe in a supreme being because they assume that everything in the world was created with a purpose. He says that young children have faith even when they have not been taught about it by family or at school, and argues that even those raised alone on a desert island would come to believe in God. The preponderance of scientific evidence for the past 10 years or so has shown that a lot more seems to be built into the natural development of childrens minds than we once thought, including a predisposition to see the natural world as designed and purposeful and that some kind of intelligent being is behind that purpose, he told BBC Radio 4s Today programme. If we threw a handful on an island and they raised themselves I think they would believe in God. In a lecture to be given at the University of Cambridges Faraday Institute on Tuesday, Dr Barrett will cite psychological experiments carried out on children that he says show they instinctively believe that almost everything has been designed with a specific purpose. google.co.in/url?q=telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/3512686/Children-are-born-believers-in-God-academic-claims.html&sa=U&ei=exV0VPjhJMKvogSNjYLgBg&ved=0CCYQFjAC&sig2=qVpg6kThEGLe4257qyAKcA&usg=AFQjCNFPCukpFJPmnOB7G5RNpxrnk1RxpQ NOTE: ISLAM INFORMED US THAT IT IS NATURAL TO BELIEVE IN GOD 1400 YEARS AGO
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