IBN TAYMIYYAH EXPOUNDS ON ISLAM شيخ الاسلام تقي الدين ابن تيمية SELECTED WRITINGS OF SHAYKH AL ISLAM TAQI AD DIN IBN TAYMIYYAH ON ISLAMIC FAITH, LIFE AND SOCIETY Compiled حت Translated By Muhammad Abdul Haqq Ansari 4 Ibn Taymiyyah Expounds on Islam Zoroastrianism act like veils, preventing people from seeing the truth. It is common experience that people whose natural sense of taste is not spoiled love sweets; they never dislike them unless something spoils the sense of taste. However, the fact that people are born with fitrah does not mean that a human body is actually born with Islamic beliefs. To be sure, when we come out of the wombs of our mothers, we know nothing. We are only born with an uncorrupted heart which is able to see the truth of Islam and submit to it. If nothing happens which corrupts the heart we would eventually become Muslims. This power to know and to act which develops into Islam when there is nothing to obstruct it or affect its natural working is the fitrah on which God has created man. [Fatawd 4:245-7] (1.2) Prophets address the Fitrah Prophets address the fitrah of man and appeal to it, for knowledge of the Truth is inherent in the fitrah. No prophet has ever addressed his people and asked that they should. first of all know the Creator, that they should look into various arguments and infer from them His existence, for every heart knows god and recognizes His existence. Everyone is born with the fitrah; only something happens afterwards which casts a veil over it. Hence, when one is reminded, one recalls what was there in one’s original nature (fitrah). That is why God sent Moses (and Aaron) to Pharaoh. He said, “Speak (to him) in soft words; he might recall” (20:44); [that is, he might recall] the knowledge inherent in his original nature regarding his Lord and His blessings on him, and that he depends upon Him completely. This may lead him to faith in his Lord, or cause him “to fear” (20:44) punishment in the Hereafter in case he denies Him. This, too, may lead to faith. That is why God has said,
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IBN TAYMIYYAH EXPOUNDS ON ISLAM شيخ الاسلام تقي الدين ابن تيمية SELECTED WRITINGS OF SHAYKH AL ISLAM TAQI AD DIN IBN TAYMIYYAH ON ISLAMIC FAITH, LIFE AND SOCIETY Compiled حت Translated By Muhammad Abdul Haqq Ansari 4 Ibn Taymiyyah Expounds on Islam Zoroastrianism act like veils, preventing people from seeing the truth. It is common experience that people whose natural sense of taste is not spoiled love sweets; they never dislike them unless something spoils the sense of taste. However, the fact that people are born with fitrah does not mean that a human body is actually born with Islamic beliefs. To be sure, when we come out of the wombs of our mothers, we know nothing. We are only born with an uncorrupted heart which is able to see the truth of Islam and submit to it. If nothing happens which corrupts the heart we would eventually become Muslims. This power to know and to act which develops into Islam when there is nothing to obstruct it or affect its natural working is the fitrah on which God has created man. [Fatawd 4:245-7] (1.2) Prophets address the Fitrah Prophets address the fitrah of man and appeal to it, for knowledge of the Truth is inherent in the fitrah. No prophet has ever addressed his people and asked that they should. first of all know the Creator, that they should look into various arguments and infer from them His existence, for every heart knows god and recognizes His existence. Everyone is born with the fitrah; only something happens afterwards which casts a veil over it. Hence, when one is reminded, one recalls what was there in one’s original nature (fitrah). That is why God sent Moses (and Aaron) to Pharaoh. He said, “Speak (to him) in soft words; he might recall” (20:44); [that is, he might recall] the knowledge inherent in his original nature regarding his Lord and His blessings on him, and that he depends upon Him completely. This may lead him to faith in his Lord, or cause him “to fear” (20:44) punishment in the Hereafter in case he denies Him. This, too, may lead to faith. That is why God has said,