Fiṭra

فطرةfiṭra

Preferred translation: innate nature
Also rendered contextually as: innate disposition, innate things
Technical sense: natural human constitution

General Technical Meaning

Fiṭra is the natural constitution disposed to receive religion.

In ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s Works

In the reviewed al-Manāmāt anthropological passage, ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī uses fiṭra for a natural human constitution that may be balanced, deviant, or intermediate. The intermediate case is not mechanically fixed: its path toward felicity or wretchedness varies with education and incoming views. This is an account of disposition and formation, not a complete doctrine of final destiny.

Source: Risālat al-Manāmāt wa-l-Nubuwwāt

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On Dreams and Prophecies · Introduction by Ustād Fayyāḍbakhsh · passage 4
On Dreams and Prophecies · Introduction by Ustād Fayyāḍbakhsh · passage 6
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Ten: On that to which the people of felicity ultimately come. · passage 8
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Ten: On that to which the people of felicity ultimately come. · passage 10
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Ten: On that to which the people of felicity ultimately come. · passage 18
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Ten: On that to which the people of felicity ultimately come. · passage 23
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Eleven — On the States of the Consummate Wretched · passage 3
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Eleven — On the States of the Consummate Wretched · passage 5
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Eleven — On the States of the Consummate Wretched · passage 6
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Fifteen — On Prophethood and Messengership and What Follows Them of Revelation, Inspiration, the Veridical Dream, the Miracle, the Preternatural, and the Charism · passage 1
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Fifteen — On Prophethood and Messengership and What Follows Them of Revelation, Inspiration, the Veridical Dream, the Miracle, the Preternatural, and the Charism · passage 5
Tafsīr al-Mīzān · al-Baqarah 2:1–5
Tafsīr al-Mīzān · al-Baqarah 2:63–74
Tafsīr al-Mīzān · al-Māʾidah 5:1–3
Tafsīr al-Mīzān · al-Māʾidah 5:27–32
Tafsīr al-Mīzān · al-Aʿrāf 7:180–186
Tafsīr al-Mīzān · Hūd 11:77–83
Tafsīr al-Mīzān · Author’s Introduction

Canonical address: /glossary/fitra/