[h=2]1.4.3. Islam is a religion of fitrah (creation)[/h]
Islam is the most suitable religion for the talents and capabilities, thoughts and feelings, desires and wishes of man aiming eternity.
Every person was created in the fitrah of Islam. The following is stated in a hadith:
Every child is born with a true faith of Islam but his parents convert him to Judaism or to Christianity or to Magainism (Bukhari, Janaiz, 80). The Quran explains it through the following verse:
So set your whole being upon the Religion (of Islam) as one of pure faith (free from unbelief, polytheism, and hypocrisy). This is the original pattern belonging to God on which He has originated humankind. No change can there be in Gods creation. This is the upright, ever-true Religion, but most of the people do not know. (ar-Room, 30)
Islam gives importance especially to human beings and human mind and imposed rules in accordance with their fitrah. According to Islam, man was created in the best way and as a caliph on the earth.
The following verse informs men about that reality: Surely We have created human of the best stature as the perfect pattern of creation. (at-Tin, 4)
Man was given enough talent and capability to make use of the world and the hereafter, and he was sent to the world for test and trial. In front of him a great area of progress and recession the lowest of the low to the highest of the high, that is, an area of rise and fall has been opened. He was promised the happiness in the world and in the hereafter to the extent that he improves and develops those talents and capabilities in accordance with their creation.
Islam ordered worship in order to orientate those feelings, thoughts, talents and capabilities towards goodness, truth and beauty. Worship consists of carrying out the orders of Allah and avoiding His prohibitions.
Man is civilized by nature
Man is a social being by nature. He has to live together with his fellow creatures in order to meet his certain needs. However, the feelings and talents of man were not put under restriction, they were left free. For instance, if the mind loses the strength, the wisdom, that is, the useful and straight way that means knowing the truth as truth and abiding by it and knowing the wrong as wrong and avoiding it and goes to the extremes either by overdoing or understating, it falls down to a harmful gab and a troublesome foolishness.
Similarly the feeling of fury and rage makes all kinds of sacrifice through the moderate way, that is, heroism, for the honor, nation and religion but does not commit any illegal acts. He fears nothing material or spiritual with the excessiveness of this feeling. All of the oppression, despotism and tyranny are the products of that degree. He fears the things that are not to be feared through the other extreme, negligence.
The feeling of lust in man becomes content with halal (permissible things) and avoids haram (forbidden things) through the moderate degree, chastity. The excess of this feeling leads to troublesome disgrace and the negligence of this feeling leads to deprivation from the tastes and pleasures of the bounties.
Another feeling of man is the desire to live eternally. This feeling, which interests him very much, should be directed in an appropriate and straight way. Thus, Islam satisfies this feeling through a belief in Allah, who is the Almighty and who has two residential places, the world and the hereafter, and who promises His slaves an eternal happiness. Then such a state changes the realm of man and makes him happy. It makes him love the world and the hereafter, and turns the world into Paradise.
It is the religion of Islam that develops those feelings and other feelings of man in a way that is appropriate for his nature and that ensures the happiness of both the individuals and the community and that is appropriate for his creation.