Allah's Fitrah
- philhoraia
- Dec 20, 2022
- 4 min read
Updated: May 1, 2024
S 30:30 So set your face to the Hanif religion. Allah’s fitrah which he has split people on. There is no change to Allah’s creation. That is the worthy religion but most people do not know.
Noun
creation
nature, disposition, constitution, temperament, instinct فطرة - Wiktionary
فِطْرَة
- Man of natural fine personality - Moral strength or very distinguishing quality - Tendency to behave in a particular way - A person's attitude in dealing with the others - creating; creation
فِطْرَة
- Moral strength or very distinguishing quality - instinct; character; disposition; impulse; intuition; mood; temperament
فِطْرَة
- origination; moral; temper
فِطْرَة
- The state of being primitive - primitiveness
فِطْرَةً
- congenitally; connately; innately فطرة In English - Translation and Meaning in English Arabic Dictionary of All terms Page 1
Is/was the Hanif religion Allah's creation? If this is Islam, wasn't it chosen and approved? Chosen and Approved Is it saying that this religion is Allah's nature? Is Allah a Muslim? Allah's Religion Allah's Religion Is it saying that there is no change in the religion? In S 5:3 we read: "...Today I have completed your religion for you and perfected my grace upon you and have approved Islam for you as a religion. ,,," Wasn't the act of completing and perfecting a change? Then there's abrogation. Regarding Abrogation
S 30 is something like the 84th surah to be composed. Why is the author told to 'set his face to the Hanif religion'? Has he not been doing so hitherto? Chronological Order of the Qur'an - WikiIslam
From an article:
Meaning of fitrah
Al-Tabari (may Allah have mercy on him) said in his Tafsir: Fitrah : the deen (way or religion) of Allah. Al-Tabaris tafsir (commentary) of the ayah (interpretation of the meaning): [Iblis said] and indeed I will order them to change the nature created by Allah. [al-Nisa 4:119]
Concerning the ayah (interpretation of the meaning), “So set your face steadily and truly to the Faith: (establish) Allah’s handiwork according to the pattern (fitrah) on which He has made mankind: no change (let there be) in the work (wrought) by Allah: that is the standard Religion: but most among mankind understand not. [al-Rum 30:30 Yusuf Ali’s translation], it was reported from some of the scholars of tafsir that the phrase the pattern (fitrah) on which He has made mankind means the design of Allah according to which He has created mankind. What Is the Meaning of Fitrah? - Islam Question & Answer
Everyone is supposedly born in a state of fitrah.
It is reported on the authority of Abu Mu'awiya that (the Holy Prophet) said:
Every new-born babe is born on the millat (of Islam and he) remains on this until his tongue is enabled to express himself. This hadith has been narratted on the authority of Abu Mu'awiya through another chain of transmitters (and the words are):" Every child is born but on this Fitra so long as he does not express himself with his tongue."
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Something interesting:
The Prophet (ﷺ) added:
I was raised to the Lote Tree and saw four rivers, two of which were coming out and two going in. Those which were coming out were the Nile and the Euphrates, and those which were going in were two rivers in paradise. Then I was given three bowls, one containing milk, and another containing honey, and a third containing wine. I took the bowl containing milk and drank it. It was said to me, "You and your followers will be on the right path (of Islam) [fitrah]."
The translator has: "will be on". Was Allah's boss up to that point not a Muslim? The Arabic of the final bit is: فَقِيلَ لِي أَصَبْتَ الْفِطْرَةَ أَنْتَ وَأُمَّتُكَ 'So it was said to me, 'You have attained the fitrah, you and your nation'. My translation. If أَصَبْتَ asabta means 'you have attained', was he ever a Muslim before this point?
If everyone is born Muslim, why does Allah create Muslims just to damn them?
S 7:179 And we have created for Jahannam many of jinn and man. They have hearts they do not comprehend with and they have eyes they do not see with. And they have ears they do not hear with. Those are like cattle, rather, they are more astray. Those, they are the heedless.
'A'isha, the mother of the believers, said that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was called to lead the funeral prayer of a child of the Ansar. I said:
Allah's Messenger, there is happiness for this child who is a bird from the birds of Paradise for it committed no sin nor has he reached the age when one can commit sin. He said: 'A'isha, per adventure, it may be otherwise, because God created for Paradise those who are fit for it while they were yet in their father's loins and created for Hell those who are to go to Hell. He created them for Hell while they were yet in their father's loins.
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