Hamza Tzortzis – The Fitrah

			And I'm gonna discuss what I mean by this in a minute. But let me first discuss based on
psychological, anthropological and historical evidence, how the concept of the fitrah is a true
concept. So we know is the innate, inborn disposition to acknowledge Allah subhanho wa Taala. And to
want to worship Him, and to believe in his oneness. So let's talk about the sociological evidence.
Professor Justin L. Barrett in his book born believers in the science of children's religious
belief, he did a quite a fascinating study and looked at narratives from children, when they will
ask questions about cause and effect and creation. And essentially children, they know that if
		

			something created the universe, it couldn't be in the universe, it has to be something metaphysical
or super natural outside of the universe, in order for the universe to come into existence. And he
concludes that regardless if they come from atheists, or non theist, families or theist families,
that they the children, they believe in what that there must have been a supernatural causal agency.
And he says, on page 35, to 36, this tendency to see function and purpose plus an understanding that
purpose and order came from minded beings, makes children like to see natural phenomena as
intentionally created, who is the creator? children? No, people are not good candidates. It must
		

			have been a god. Children are born believers have what I call natural religion.
		

			Also brothers and sisters, other social anthropologists say that if you take any children from any
background, atheist or no and you throw them on a desert island safely, of course,
		

			they will conclude that there is supernatural causal agency. This is the natural default position of
		

			human beings take the psychology of religion now, in the general key psychological issues in the
study of religion, the academic Olivia Petrovich. She concludes the following. And it's quite
fascinating, she says, the possibility that some religious beliefs are universal. For example, basic
belief in a non anthropomorphic God as a creator of the natural world seems to have a stronger
empirical Foundation, then could be inferred from religious texts. and elsewhere. She says that the
natural psyche, the natural psychological disposition of a human being, is to believe in God and
that atheism is a forced psychology.
		

			Isn't that interesting? And we supposed to be the ones who are fundamentalists, and we brainwash
children, right?
		

			Also, when you look like when you look at anthropological evidence, you see that one part of the
fitrah, which is an affinity to worship Allah, this sanctification instinct is inherent in all human
beings. Everybody worship something, trust me. Just look at Justin Bieber, and you see this right?
		

			How many followers
		

			on Twitter 22 million.
		

			15 million. Yeah. And she's not very good singer.
		

			I'm sorry, I didn't.
		

			The point is the point is that
		

			I'm so sorry. That's my very bad. Very bad. Jay Hillier coming out.
		

			Today is to be human rights. Yeah.
		

			That's after London. Yeah, I'm too harsh. The point is, you know, on the BBC News, you saw basically
that Justin Bieber was retweeting his followers and following his followers. And they filmed some of
these girls, right? And they were like, as if they were ready to die. They just achieved the
accomplishment, like, Oh, my God, he followed me is the best thing in the world. He was she was
crying. I was like, Oh, my God, what is this right? Now? Don't love sisters, because sometimes, you
know, you, you you have the same problem. Honestly, I remember two years ago and bigness sheet
concepts, right? Can you say my hijab, please? I mean, what is with that? Yeah. And we need to be
		

			careful, because this is like, you know, manifesting the core instinct. Allah has given us in the
wrong way. We don't worship these people, right? And I'm using crude examples, but it's there to
stick in your mind. So look at the kind of evidence here that people worship something, whether we
may, even if because it was communist, for example, look at Communist China and Russia. They had
huge statues of Stalin and Lenin and they'll revere them. And sometimes, you know, when you were to
discuss especially older Arabs, and you were born in the Arab world, you would basically see that if
you were to discuss communism in the 1960s, I mean, the communists were very harsh. I want to be
		

			very harsh and aggressive at that time. And if you like
		

			Anything about the ideas is like you like dismantling their load, right? And so we have these we
sanctify even concepts because you can have the shock of conceptualization that your concept becomes
so great that it's like why to you, right? And so when you look at Communist China and Russia and
atheist nations, this instinct is coming out