RENAISSANCE OCTOBER 2020

33 Monthly Renaissance October 2020 Reflections Understanding God’s Scheme Sheharbano Ali In many cases, we find that people develop a wrong perception of God and the guidance provided to us by His messengers. A prominent reason for this is the attitude of religious presenters. When a human being gains consciousness, he develops an attitude that just like he has parents, a country, he also has a religion among the people among who he was born. Thus he follows religion in the same light as he practices his tradition and culture. But not all people are like that. Some are very sensitive from an ideological perspective. When such people see that they also have a religious identity they strive to understand this religious identity and make sense of it. In their surroundings, they see some religious leaders who are carrying out religious duties. Similarly, they will have parents and relatives telling them some things about religion. So for some, these observations, teachings, and attitudes that they encounter do not seem to satisfy them. Whatever they are told, they feel that it does not meet the criteria of knowledge and reason. One way of dealing with this is that this person leaves everything else and makes religion or religious texts a topic of his research. He pursues knowledge to look beyond the teachings of his local imam or preacher or those inherited by him from his family and relatives. A second possibility is that he develops an indifferent thinking towards religion. When this attitude develops, the person then gradually loses his ability to see things in a broader perspective. Thus this is the moment where some people observe that there is cruelty and injustice in this world, there is pain and suffering, there are earthquakes and natural disasters. So these things worry them and they think if there is a creator of this universe, how is he dealing with humans? Fundamentally, this issue stems from the fact that in their cultural and traditional