Recognition of Our Creator

RECOGNITION OF OUR CREATOR

The question which arises here is : How can all people be expected
to believe in the one true God, given their varying backgrounds,
societies and cultures? For people to be held responsible for
worshipping the one true God, they all need to have access to knowledge
of Him. The final revelation teaches that all humans being have the
recognition of the one true God imprinted on their souls as a part of their
very nature with which they are created.

In the seventh chapter of the Qur’an (Al-A’raaF, verses 172-173),
God explained that when He created Adam He caused all of Adam’s
descendants to come into  existence and He took a pledge from them
saying:

‘Am I not your Lord , ‘ To which they all replied, ‘Yes, we
testify to it.”’

Allah then explained why He had all of mankind bear witness that
He is their creator and the only true God worthy of worship. He said:

That was in case you (mankind) should say on the day of
Resurrection, ‘Verily we were unaware of all this.
(Qur’an 7:172)
That is to say, we cannot claim on that day that we had no idea that
Allah, was our God and that no one told us that we were only supposed to worship Allah alone. Allah went on to further explain that:

“It was also in case you should say, ‘Certainly it was our
ancestors who made partners (with Allah) and we are only their
descendants; will you then destroy us for what those liars did?’”
(Qur’an 7:173)

Thus, every child is born with a natural belief in God and an in-born
inclination to worship Him alone. This in-born belief and inclination is
called in Arabic the “Fitrah”.

The Prophet Muhammad reported that Allah said, i created my
servants in the right religion, but devils made them go astray. “ The
Prophet also said, “Each child is born in a state of Fitrah.
Then his parents
make him a Jew, Christian or a Zoroastrian. “If the child were left alone,
he would worship God in his own way, but all children are affected by the
environment.
So, just as the child submits to the physical laws, which
Allah has imposed on nature, in the same way his soul also submits
naturally to the fact that Allah is his Lord and Creator.
But, if his parents
try to make him follow a different path, the child is not strong enough in
the early stages of his life to resist or oppose the will of his parents. In
such cases, the religion, which the child follows, is one of custom and
upbringing, and God does not hold him to account or punish him for his
religion up to a certain stage of his life