Fitrah is congruent with Allah’s Way:
Your psychological structure is congruent with Allah’s Way, and your nature (fitrah) is at ease when carrying out Allah’s orders. Similarly, a very expensive car has been designed to be driven on paved roads only, and if you drive it on a bumpy road, it breaks down and fails you because it has been designed only for the roads which have been surfaced. As for you, you have been designed according to Allah’s Way, and if you carry out His orders, you attain indescribable happiness. Allah has ordered you honesty, so when you tell the truth, you feel very comfortable. He has ordered you to be loyal, so when you are, you feel content. He has ordered you to be compassionate, so when you are merciful towards people around you, you feel at ease. Hence:
“So set thou your face steadily and truly to the Deen being upright: the pattern on which Allah has made mankind.”
Fitrah is the primordial nature of the human being and Islam is the deen of fitrah.
Your nature is comfortable with all Allah’s orders. Therefore, Allah Most High has called what goes against your nature munkar (sins), and He has called what matches your nature ma'ruf (good deeds).
So, all the things your nature rejects are munkar and the things in harmony with your nature are ma'ruf; and the two words, munkar and ma'ruf, reflect the congruence between nature and deen. That's why Allah Most High says:
“By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it; And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;”
You don’t need anyone to tell you that it is upright when you do good deeds because you know you are being righteous; or to tell you that something is wrong because your nature will tell you so. Admittedly, animals also comprehend their world by fitrah. For example, when a cat snatches away a piece of meet, it eats it away from you; but when you feed her by hand, the cat eats it next to you because it knows by fitrah that taking a piece of meat without your knowledge or stealing it is a wrong deed, though it is not responsible for it, of course.
Universe, reasoning and fitrah…
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