Global Journal of Human-Social Science, A: Arts and Humanities, Volume 23 Issue 5

Volume XXIII Issue V Version I 13 Global Journal of Human Social Science - Year 2023 ( ) A © 2023 Global Journals A Quranic Concept with Universal Appeal: The Innate Monotheistic Disposition ( Fitra ) idols, which also seems to be the point of view of Lactantius. Finally it should be noted that the Qur'an does not just mention the impact of fear. It also recalls hope, which leads human beings to turn to the mercy of the one God to overcome the difficulties that beset them, such as the calamities caused by drought, which leads them to hope for beneficial water from heaven. His thinking on this point corresponds to the hermeneutical threshold of the pseudo-Clementine corpus with which he shares this theme, which Lactantius, on the other hand, seems not to have addressed: Homilies XI, 13, 3-4 ( 3) Why then, when the rains cease, do you always turn your eyes towards heaven with your prayers and supplications and, when you have obtained satisfaction, hasten to forget? (4) For once the harvest or the grape harvest is done, you soon offer the first-fruits to idols who are nothing, soon forgetting the author of the blessing, who is God". Recognitions (Reconnaissances pseudo clémentines) V, 30, 5-6 How is it that, when the rain is held off for a long period without clouds, we raise our eyes to the heavens and ask Almighty God for the gift of rain and, pouring out our prayers at his feet, all of us with our little children implore his compassions? "But in reality, as soon as they have obtained an answer, ungrateful souls immediately forget. In fact, after harvesting the crops or the grapes, men immediately bring the first fruits of their wealth to deaf and dumb statues, and for the gifts that God has granted them, they fulfil their vows in the temples or sacred groves where they offer sacrifices to the demons; they have received a benefit, but they are mistaken about the author of the benefit. Qur’an 29, 62: "If you ask them, 'Who sent down water from heaven by which the earth is revived after its death? They will surely reply: "It is God." Say, praise be to God, but most men do not understand. 112, 2 : "God is the only one to be implored for what we desire". 13, 14: "True invocation is addressed to Him. Those whom men invoke apart from him do not answer them in any way; any more than water reaches the mouth of one who stretches out his two hands towards it so that it reaches it. The invocation of the unbelievers is nothing but vanity". 10, 21: "When we give men a taste of mercy (rahma, such as rain) after a misfortune has befallen them (drought), behold, they use strat ag ems against our signs". 11, 10: "If we make a man taste a benefit after misfortune has befallen him, he will say: 'Evil has departed from me' and he will be joyful and proud". 14, 16: "Say, will you take masters besides him who have neither profit nor damage for themselves? Despite his many weaknesses, man remains, according to the Qur’an, the only creature capable of caring for creation, provided that he remembers the abilities he received at birth. Indeed, it shows that his fitra not only enables him to form an accurate idea of the Creator and his goodness, but also to understand that he is destined by this specific trait of his nature to conform his behavior as far as possible to the models God proposes to him. One of the most remarkable of these is the harmony that the Creator has established between the object of authentic faith and the disposition to attain it. Fitra goes hand in hand with the non-violence of monotheism and predisposes humankind to establish universal peace. The exclamation: "no compulsion in the true worship", with its double connotation of statement and injunction, appears almost identically in the Qur’an and the Divine Institutes .