How Does Islam View Man?

Every human being, Islam affirms, stands to benefit from these divine dispensations. The road to felicity is a free and open highway which anyone may tread of his own accord. Everybody is innately endowed with all these rights and privileges. God has granted them to all without discrimination. "Nature", "the earth", "the heavens" all belong to each and every human Indeed, God has done all this and even more! He has implanted His own religion in innate, with which all human are equipped.

Behind the dazzling religious diversity of mankind stands an innate religion inseparable from human nature. This is the primordial religion, the one and only true religion.

"The religion before Allah is Islam (submission to His will): nor did the people of the book dissent therefrom except through envy of each other, after knowledge had come to them. But if any deny the Signs of Allah, Allah is swift in calling accounting.” [Qur'an, Surah Al-‘Imran, 3: 19]

Everyone possesses it unless acculturation and indoctrination, misguidance, corruption or dissuasion have taught him otherwise.

Prophet Mohammed (salla Allahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said: "Every newborn child is born on the innate nature (Islam complete surrender to Allah).Then his parents change him into Judaism, Christianity or Magianism."

Islam entertains no idea of "the fall of man", no concept of "original sin". It holds no man to stand in an innate, necessary predicament out of which he cannot pull himself. Man, it holds, is innocent. He is born with his innocence. Indeed, he is born with a thousand given perfection, with faculties of understanding, and an innate sense with which to know the true God. In this all men are equal, since it follows from their very existence, from their creation. This is the basis of Islamic Universalism.