There is no
true identity for man without religion. Actually, what is identity? All the
things humans attach themselves to such as nation, country or tribe etc.., are
all superficial. True identity lies in the deep connections and attachments. We
all know that those attachments are shallow and there is a deeper one. We know
that the nation or family name doesn't change much. If we were in a different
country we would still be us, and if our name or family name is different
nothing real has changed. A person his name is John for example, can't he be
Richard, George or Omar? It's only a change of letters and their arrangement.
Those are the information in your Identity Card. Nothing in your ID card can
determine your identity more than religion, because it is a connection with the
deep and constant, at least you view it this way.
Thus, lack of
religion makes a person lacks true identity, except those attachments which
aren't deep and not specific to the individual himself, (you know things from
their relationship with yourself, and you know yourself from your relationship
with God).
That's why who
strictly adhere to those shallow attachments is called a fanatic. Extreme
attachment to a nation is called chauvinism or Nazism, extreme loyalty to skin
color and race is called racism, and extreme attachment to a certain sect is
called sectarianism. All those images are ugly and despised, and all can be
destroyed by logic and doesn't stand up for criticism. There is no real
difference between being an Asian, European or African, being black or white,
and being German, French, Indian or Chinese.
What is the
difference that can really differentiate? Nothing can clearly differentiate
more than religion. The choice between good and evil is the clear difference,
this choice is the true identity. Who has lost his religion has lost his
identity. There is no real value for the ID card except where it's needed, it's
more valuable to the government employee than it is for its owner.
One of the
signs of the superficiality of the common identity attachments is that they
attach to the close blood relationship, the new nation or new home country.
There is no value for the old home or the old blood relationship, this is a
proof of superficiality.
Atheism is a
true lie. Even the atheist deep down is attached to his old religion. Israel is
an evidence for that, it's a secular government and many of its leaders are
atheists, and yet they came to serve what they call a national project, while
it's a religious one.
Immanuel Kant
assures that identity is built on the basis of our relationship with others.
But he didn't clarify its mechanism. Religion, however, organizes one's
relationship with others, which means that religion is the basis of identity
not others.
Identity is the
answer to the deep question: who am I and why do I exist? When one says: I'm a
slave to God for the rest of my life, here identity is accomplished. True
identity is found in slavery to God, it can't be changed by the change of one's
home country or any other attachment, because it's deeper than all of them.
One's home might change, so is one's language and customs, but religion doesn't
change except by free choice. All the other information required for identity
are unnecessary, thus identity is reached when slavery to God is reached, {I
created the jinn and humankind only that they might worship Me} the Quran. All
other identities had been acquired through culture, and true identity is discovered
by an internal motivation and from what one has consciously chose from his/her
religion, not from all one knew about religion without choice. True identity
isn't reached by an outer pressure or an external motivation, the person has
searched and found that s/he is a slave to God. Here one has stopped and became
a person with identity.
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