Hence the ayah states...

Hence the ayah states, (فَطَرَ النَّاسَ عَلَيْهَا), —He originated man kind in accordance with it— that is, no specific group or race is meant. The verse further says: ﴿لَا تَبْدِيلَ لِخَلْقِ اللَّهِ.﴾ There is no changing God’s creation. It is not changed by anything, like other factors which change according to habit and custom and other such things.

But what is astonishing is that in spite of being uniform regarding their natural instincts, from the beginning of the world until the present, people have been generally ignorant of the uniformity of their nature. They imagine that it varies, unless they are made aware of its uniform and unchangeable quality. It is only then that they can understand that there has been unity despite apparent disparity. God willing, we will cl arif y this point further at a later stage.

Innateness Of Religious Truths Every exegete of the Quran, Sunni or Shi’i, has written about the innateness of Din or tawhid in his own specific way. Here we shall not base our discussion on their opinions.

Rather, we shall describe the original ideas of the accomplished ‘ arif , Shaykh Shahabadi (D)[^2] who was unique in this field, although some of the ideas can be found in the form of allusions in the writings of researchers in the field of ‘ irfan , and some of them have occurred to this incapable writer. Let it be known that among God-given instincts one is the belief in the existence of the Sacred and Sublime Source of everything; the second is the belief in It’s Unity, i.e.