The most important thing in life is our belief, knowing ourselves and what we stand for.
Without knowing that, there will always be a void in our heart, a void that we look around to fill.
We see the world around us and some people don't think beyond the superficial things they see.
The void then becomes one of being distracted with material things.
We make up our own beliefs and our own systems to try and convince ourselves that we're okay,
we know what we're doing, we know where we're going, but at the end of the day if we are not convinced about
our own beliefs and who we are, we are not able to convince others. It all starts with ourselves.
There is something that islam teaches us about the human person, it's called the Fitra.
Fitra is a natural inclination to know and feel what makes sense in this life. Usually to know that there is
a creator for us and why he has made us.
Allah ﷻ says we shall show them our signs and guidance
in space, in the heavens, in the celestial bodies up above us, and within ourselves in our own biology
and that's just talking about that instinctive nature.
The prophets of Allah are no different.
They were created with this Fitra as well for they were humans and to us, Ibrahim alaihissalam is what
we're going to talk about. When he was born, he was born with that Fitra
Prophet Ibrahim alaihissalam also questioned and looked around
He looked up into the heavens, he looked at the people around him
and he was also guided by Allah in his initial stages, when he was only in his early teenage years.
Allah says in the Quran that he showed his prophet Ibrahim signs around him to understand
this we need to go back in time to see what kind of people ibrahim Alaihissalam was raised amongst.
Well the historians tell us that ibrahim was born in a place called ur which later on became
most likely babylonia these people brought in the first type of belief ever heard of
which is called the horoscopic astrology or what we know as today zodiac signs and the celestial planets
as if they told them about their future and that the gods communicated with them through these bodies.
The sun had a meaning, the moon had a meaning, the way the stars came together had a meaning.
They even had gods which they made named after certain planets like Jupiter and Saturn
They had a god named murdoch and each tribe and each place had their own great god and their little gods amongst them
Ibrahim alaihissalam growing up as a child looked around him and thought
how can i believe what they believe? You see, prophet ibrahim from an early age he was a very
inquisitive type of person. He asked, he questioned he analyzed, he looked at the sun, he looked at the moon,
he looked at the stars, he looked at what they thought of and thought to himself but these
bodies and these things around they continue to do the same thing over and over again as if they
are controlled so he analyzed, how can something be controlled be a god itself?
Someone is above all of this and controlling everything, the creator of the universe, he is Allah.
Allah is the name we use in Arabic, which just means the one and only true lord of the universe
the god who is worthy of worship
suddenly allah brought the new message and made him and called him a prophet
from a very young age of what society calls today a teenager my brothers and sisters
through this normal fitra thought the natural way that ibrahim alayhi salaam thought like the
rest of us allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala wanted to instill that belief in him and give him something
to go away to his people and to his family to talk about with absolute conviction and so says
and so we showed Ibrahim the kingdom of the entire heavens in space and also of the earth
so that he can instill his faith and be assured of what he had believed in before even the message came to him.
Now ibrahim alaihissalam was ready to go forth and teach others the truth and what he
was about to teach was going to change the entire fabric of society as he knew it.
It was not going to be an easy task, and the most difficult task was he has to face none other than his own father