The term "fitrah" seems to have some connotations of "natural" and is sometimes rendered as ["innate nature"](https://islam.stackexchange.com/a/35/17702) . It crops up in different contexts, sometimes as including a natural inclination to the doctrines of Islam (see first link), [circumcision](https://islamqa.info/en/2887) , matters of [hygiene and grooming](http://www.islamweb.net/emainpage/index.php?page=showfatwa&Option=FatwaId&Id=86084) . Wikipedia has a very small [article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitra) on it that talks about it in spiritual terms. The question whether certain acts are against fitrah has been asked on here (in particular, [homosexuality](https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/38974/does-homosexuality-go-against-the-fitra-according-to-the-quran-and-sunnah)) , and [islamQA](https://islamqa.info/en/10050) for example says that's the case.
That is quite a number of concepts grouped together into fitrah, so that leaves me with quite a diffuse understanding of the term. So my question is, what exactly is fitrah?
Asked by G. Bach
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Apr 18, 2017, 01:36 PM
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