Human Nature

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Why do people sin even though they know its wrong?
wether it be lying, pick pocketing, or having sex?

Is it human nature?

Also does love really make us blind and fall for those who are forbidden?
Would you fight for them or make them see reason?
or when it was time to get married would you leave them?
There are many religions, traditions and cultures which forbid us from seeking partners outside their own but why? Is it not possible to marry out without destroying your faith?
Does it make those who go against sacred scripture non-believers?

Discuss and please don’t flood my thread with hate

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No its not human nature.

Its just have sometimes humans have lesser control over themselves and can easily get carried away by their desires (whether its lying, having sex or Muslim girls marrying non-Muslims).

I don't believe that being humans we cannot control what we want and we cannot program ourselves accordingly. If somehow we start liking someone whom we cannot marry, we can immediate withdraw upon realising. For that, we have to have good knowledge about what is allowed and what is forbidden and should be strong enough to keep ourselves away from everything forbidden.

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but everybody lies so how can it not be human nature?
and how can you keep yourselves away from everything thats forbidden? Would you sacrifice everything like the Amish do with no technology?

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You're right, there is no way you can keep away from everything that's forbidden. Which is why we have repentance.

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Temptation is the desire to perform an action that one may enjoy immediately or in the short term but will probably later regret for various reasons: legal, social, psychological (including feeling guilt), health-related, economic, etc. In the context of religion, temptation is the inclination to sin.

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The extent to which you can control or not control your temptation is within your own hands. Its not something which is called human nature. We all can work towards controlling our temptations.

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Its not human nature at all, this all depends on morals. Some people have more fine tuned morals than others.One person's temptation may be another person's daily routine.Allah made all human beings prone to mistakes & imperfect so that attraction towards whatever temptation it is becomes stronger.It varies from person to person some people are just better at dealing with it than others.

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As human was sent to this world so that his love for Allah jalla jalaaluhu is tested, an inbuilt force was put into his system, i.e. the *Nafs.
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The purpose of nafs is to show everything opposite to what they actually are. To show boredom in Quran recitation, which is actually food for the soul and to show lustful pleasure in music/vulgarity/immoral acts which in reality wounds the soul.

Another enemy against whom one has to fight till death in order to prove ones love for Allah is, the devil / Shaitaan, who doesn't take any break in misguiding people. To overcome these 2 enemies, company of pious people helps a lot.

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So if we have to control it doesn't it mean that its human nature?

hmm I don't really understand why any form of arts is considered sinful? When/who declared it so? Didn't Allah create lust, music, vulgarity and immoral acts as well?

What defines pious people?

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If you cannot control something, its human nature. As 5samra said, controlling and not controlling depends on the morals and upbringing and we can have varying values depending on our morals, its not human nature. Human nature remains same for all people irrespective of their values, nationalities etc.

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I guess every human being has the capacity for good and bad, kindess and anger and love and hate. It is all there within us. But here comes the role of religion, where we can learn to repress our fruitless dark desires and enjoy in the rewards of good deeds.

I think our love for God should be greater than our love for anything.

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Thanks for qualifying your request "not to flood thread with hate", does it not give an implicit permission to flood it with appreciation? Wondering

In Quran Allah says;

[3:15] Beautified for men is the love of desired things — women and children, and stored-up heaps of gold and silver, and pastured horses and cattle and crops. That is the provision of the present life; but it is Allah with Whom is an excellent home.

If you analyse any "sin" you will realize it revolves around one of the aforementioned things, so in a nutshell it is human nature and to abstain what has been forbidden is "The Test"

I could't understand the meaning of "Also does love really make us blind and fall for those who are forbidden?", but yes, Love is a fallacy created by overly focus, it creates a world above the realm of reality, a heaven as long as the eyes are closed.

A marriage is not merely a contract between two human bodies, it is a contract to merge two lives, two cultures, two traditions and two religions, thus impossible to "mind our own faith" after we have lost the individual identity.

To you a non believer, by definition, is a person who does't believe in what you believe in.

I am sure I did't flood it with "HATE"

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Sex is not human nature?? interesting !!!

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so you can control about lying? but as I said everybody lies so how?

I don't know about that. I'm not religious and I think I have good morals. I don't steal, smoke, drink, do drugs or even eat pork and my parents aren't religious either.

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what i understand that it is asked in the context of ill legal or out of martial life sex. (to cheat your life partner)