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Human Fitrah & Relationship With Morality
Watched ghamidi sahab videos about human fitrah.As he said k insan k andar potential huta hai tou wo morality ko express krna shhru kr deta hai.Can someone elaborate this more?
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Human Fitrah & Relationship With Morality
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وَنَفْسٍ وَمَا سَوَّاهَا فَأَلْهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقْوَاهَا قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَنْ زَكَّاهَا وَقَدْ خَابَ مَنْ دَسَّاهَا
And the soul bears witness and the perfection given to it, then [God] inspired it with its evil and its good that he succeeded who purified it and he failed who corrupted it. (Quran 91:7-10)
What is the means through which a person can know what good and evil is? This is the most fundamental question of moral philosophy. In the above quoted verses, the Quran has made it clear that just as the Almighty has blessed a person with eyes to see and ears to hear, similarly, he has blessed him with a faculty which distinguishes good and evil for him. A person is not mere body and intellect. He is also a moral being. This means that the ability to distinguish good from evil and the appreciation that good is good and evil is evil is innately ordained in him.
إِنَّ اللّهَ يَأْمُرُ بِالْعَدْلِ وَالإِحْسَانِ وَإِيتَاء ذِي الْقُرْبَى وَيَنْهَى عَنِ الْفَحْشَاء وَالْمُنكَرِ وَالْبَغْيِ يَعِظُكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَكَّرُونَ
God enjoins you to justice, goodness and spending on the kindred, and forbids lewdness, evil and arrogance. He admonishes you so that you may take heed. (Quran 16:90)
Outlined in these verses is the fundamental principle of the guidance provided by the Quran in this regard. The bases on which man’s nature requires of him to adopt good morals and leave bad ones are explained in these verses. These principles of good and evil are in conformity with human nature and hence they have been acknowledged in divine religions.
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I have seen these videos.But human being has ability to become conditioned by environment with time.As human born in an environment where killing is normal.He would also consider killing is normal.then now where morals have gone?In this perspective how human knows what is good and what is evil?
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To understand morals and morality further and their relationship with human nature (fitrat), please refer to the text and/or videos provided in the following threads:
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Human beings also have the ability to deviate from their fitrat/nature but this doesn’t negate the premise that human beings have this innate knowledge of good and evil within their firtrat. Also, at times, human beings make mistakes in application of the same built-in moral values, which is why we have guidance from the Almighty to eliminate this possibility as well.
Please refer to the following answers from Questions 2 to Question 5:
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Please also refer to the video below from 43:53 to 50:37
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Please also refer to the video below from 11:19 to 19:42
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