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SpiritualRoadmapbyGhazali, page : 34
To thirst after comprehension of the truth of matters was my habit and custom
from a very early age. It was instinctive with me, a part of my Allah-given nature,
a matter of temperament and not of my choice or contriving. Consequently, as I
drew near the age of adolescence, the bonds of mere authority (taqlid) ceased
to hold me and inherited beliefs lost their grip upon me, for I saw that Christian
youths always grew up to be Christians (Nazarenes), Jewish youths to be Jews
and Muslim youths to be Muslims. I heard, the Prophetic Saying related of the
Prophet of Allah, praise and veneration upon him, as reported in Ahmad,
Bukhari, and Muslim, in which he said:
“Every child is born upon innocent upright nature; then his parents make him
a Jew or a Christian or a fire worshipper (Magian).”
So inside me I craved to discover the reality of what this original innocent
upright nature belief really was and also the reality of this abrupt belief by
emulating parents and teachers and to distinguish between these emulations
and its beginning, and how it is delivered to the child and to distinguish the truth
from all types of falsehood.
from a very early age. It was instinctive with me, a part of my Allah-given nature,
a matter of temperament and not of my choice or contriving. Consequently, as I
drew near the age of adolescence, the bonds of mere authority (taqlid) ceased
to hold me and inherited beliefs lost their grip upon me, for I saw that Christian
youths always grew up to be Christians (Nazarenes), Jewish youths to be Jews
and Muslim youths to be Muslims. I heard, the Prophetic Saying related of the
Prophet of Allah, praise and veneration upon him, as reported in Ahmad,
Bukhari, and Muslim, in which he said:
“Every child is born upon innocent upright nature; then his parents make him
a Jew or a Christian or a fire worshipper (Magian).”
So inside me I craved to discover the reality of what this original innocent
upright nature belief really was and also the reality of this abrupt belief by
emulating parents and teachers and to distinguish between these emulations
and its beginning, and how it is delivered to the child and to distinguish the truth
from all types of falsehood.