concept

Fiṭra

Beliefs & concepts

The named innate disposition toward God and right measure in Islamic speech. Not nature as bare temperament, and not original-sin as inherited fault.

Also known as Fitrah · Fitra

Islam

  • Fiṭra appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an (30:30) names the fiṭra on which God originated people — the innate upright disposition. Islamic fiṭra speech in that revelation, not nature as bare temperament and not original-sin as inherited fault from another book.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)

    M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).