Quran 30:30 - The Primordial Lifestyle
“So direct your face towards the religion, inclining to truth. The primordial lifestyle (fitrah) of God upon which He has created people. No change should there be in the creation of God. That is the correct religion, but most of the people do not know.” (30:30). God created our body from clay and breathed His own spirit into us (15:29). Then God did not merely suggest the angels tip their hat to us, so to speak, as a mark of respect. Rather, He ordered them to prostrate to us (7:12), the act of utmost reverence that we perform in our daily prayers and feel is only befitting of God. We are barely a speck of dust in the universe, yet God gave each one of us unlimited access to His undivided attention (2:186). So God enshrined in mankind the highest conceivable status and validation. The Quran reveals a spiritual reality behind this material world, in which the nature and species around us glorify and praise God, in their own way that is beyond our perception (17:44). But we stand out as