The Divine Culture and Tradition from the Islamic Perspective A Descriptive Study

Abstract

Every individual belongs to a community and the community may adopt and recognize a unique way of doing their activities - known as culture- that are acceptable by its members. This way of life may or may not be in the favor of everyone but yet the society understands and judges things to be good or bad by its established doctrines practiced by the elderly people. The habit of doing something as it is being done by the elders among people could be a parameter of man’s natural aptitude to know and do what is right or wrong. But Allah (عزًوجلً) God has designed for every generation a specific way of life to fulfil the fundamentals of human relationship with his Creator (Allah), his fellow human being, his environment and all other existing creations in the heaven and the earth. Allah says:

...ولِكُلٍّ جَعَلْنَا مِنْكُمْ شِرْعَةً وَّ مِنْهَاجًا ؕ وَ لَوْ شَآءَ اللّٰهُ لَجَعَلَكُمْ اُمَّةً وَّاحِدَةً وَّ لٰكِنْ لِّیَبْلُوَكُمْ فِیْ مَاۤ اٰتٰىكُمْ فَاسْتَبِقُوا الْخَیْرٰتِ ؕ...۝۴۸

“…to each among you we have prescribed a law and a clear way. If Allah had willed, He would have made you one nation, but that (He) may test you in what He has given you; so compete in good deeds…” (Quran 5:48).