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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Combining the hadith of fitrah with the fact that the soul is inclined toward evil

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: It is mentioned in the hadith of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
Every child is born with a true faith of Islamكل مولود يولد على الفطرة
Sahih al-Bukhari 1385
. I have difficulty reconciling this with what Ibn al-Qayyim mentioned, namely that the default state of the soul is that it is inclined toward evil.

Answer:
Fitrah is the religion. The religion of Islam is the fitrah. It is the fitrah, as He, Glorified and Exalted is He, said: "The fitrah of Allah upon which He created people; that is the upright religion."
So the default state of the human being is that he is upon sound fitrah. It is only bad upbringing that distorts him.
and his parents convert him to Judaism or Christianity or Magianismفأبواه يهودانه أو ينصرانه أو يمجسانه
Sahih al-Bukhari 1385
. It does not say "or they make him Muslim," because the default is Islam. But bad upbringing distorts the newborn, distorting him from Islam.
So direct your face toward the religion, inclining to truth. [Adhere to] the fitrah of Allah upon which He has created [all] people. No change should there be in the creation of Allah. That is the correct religionفَأَقِمْ وَجْهَكَ لِلدِّينِ حَنِيفًا فِطْرَتَ اللَّهِ الَّتِي فَطَرَ النَّاسَ عَلَيْهَا لَا تَبْدِيلَ لِخَلْقِ اللَّهِ ذَٰلِكَ الدِّينُ الْقَيِّمُ
[Ar-Rum 30:30]
So fitrah is the upright religion and Islam. This is the default state of the newborn. This is the default state of the newborn. But if he is raised with sound upbringing, his fitrah remains, grows, and increases. And if he is raised with bad upbringing, his fitrah deviates and becomes corrupt. Yes.
Source شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، بداية من قول المُصَنِّف : ومن علامات صحة القلب — islamhouse.com (1:01:19)

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