16- The motive for being religious
Question: Is there in man a natural instinct urging him to be religious and to look for God?
Question: Does man need a God?
Wise people, philosophers and researchers agree that being religious is an instinct in man, man has a hidden natural power inside him pushes him to resort to the hidden power that he can’t recognize to interpret the matters he is not able to realize or achieve in his life, this is what urged primitive man to search for God, as the ancient Egyptians, Chinese, Indians, Persians and others did. They all searched for the hidden power they felt by their nature even if some of them went astray and followed the wrong way without guidance by prophets and apostles.
Some of them thought this power is a celestial body like the sun, the moon or any other star, others thought it is a tangible power man can’t resist like fire, others made it as a physical figure like an idol, an image or a statue, those people went astray, they couldn’t realize this power because they didn’t follow the guidance of heavenly missions, but they all seek this hidden power and attribute to it creating the universe and creatures, fulfilling their wishes and saving happiness for them in the hereafter.
But true monotheism that truthful people of heavenly religions reached was by the revelation of heavens upon those prophets and apostles chosen by Allah, so the Koran says about disbelievers: “If you ask them, who it is that created the heavens and the earth. They will certainly say, "(Allah)"”
Surat Lukman, Verse 25.
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