Islamic doctrine holds children born pure, contradicting original-sin pessimism

Evidence

The child is ontologically open and pure. The child is not corrupted in the Augustinian original-sin sense Episode 37 documented. The Islamic fiṭra doctrine — grounded in the Hadith of Abu Hurayrah (“Every child is born upon the fiṭra, and his parents make him a Jew, a Christian, or a Magian”) — grounds Islamic operational ontology in optimism. — , The Rod and the Child, 3521

Categorization

• XREF: Directly inverts the Augustinian original-sin framework from Episode 37 of this same book. — connects to: Religious right childrearing doctrine frames infants as rebels needing force — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 642
• DEFINE: Defines fiṭra as the Islamic doctrine of innate child purity.