This is not an “extremist” view. A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Every child is born on Islam, but his parents make him a Jew and a Christian, just as a beast is born whole.” It continues “Do you find some among them (born) maimed? The people asked: Messenger of Allah! What do you think about the one who died while he was young? He replied : Allah knows best what he was going to do.” (Sunan Abu Dawud, 4714)
“Every child is born a Muslim: Islamic hate preacher Zakir Naik claims in his latest video,” OpIndia, January 20, 2021:
Islamic hate preacher Dr Zakir Naik in his latest video posted on his YouTube channel has claimed that every child ‘is born a Muslim’.
Naik claims that Prophet Muhammad said that every child is born in the innate religion. “Every child is born as a Muslim. He submits to Allah. Later on, the elders, the parents, the teachers, they influence the child. He may remain on straight path or he may become a fire worshipper, he may become an idol worshipper and then he may go out of the fold of Islam,” he says.
He further claims that every child, irrespective of the child being born in Hindu, Christian or even Jewish family is born as a Muslim. “He submits his will to Allah,” he claims. He claims that hence, when a person converts to Islam, the ‘appropriate’ word is ‘revert’. “He was on the straight path, he went on a wrong path and now he is back on the straight path,” he claims.
To prove that every child is born as Muslim, Naik talks about ‘Kapaku and Australian aborigine tribes’. He claims that these people, who were away from civilisation, lived their lives like Muslims, without really knowing they were Muslims. However, that is not true….
mortimer says
According to this doctrine, raising a child in any other faith is a wicked, heinous crime. Islam thus starts by demonizing people of other (or no) faiths. It then goes downhill from there with jihad and taqiyya.
Muslims hate the kafir merely because he exists.
gravenimage says
+1
Rob Porter says
Evident is that Mohammad talked the most astounding load of unadulterated nonsense, that the Qur’an and thus Muslims like this imam reflect that total rubbish. Why would any informed and sane person n the West want in their country people wh think such idiotic thoughts and act upon it with anger and hostility when anyone disagrees?
somehistory says
If the moslims really believed that, they wouldn’t murder pregnant women…but they do murder pregnant women. islam is straight from satan the devil and there is no regard for the sanctity of life in that demon serpent…and he does not inspire it in his children.
katherine says
Yes but I see why children are born with an original sin – Islam.
PRCS says
The Muslim belief that children are born into Islam is just that: a belief.
The same applies to any and all others who believe children are born into their respective faiths.
Children are just born.
Honest Ali says
It is their justification for murdering innocent people… because according to their false prophet… all non-Muslims are apostates subject to the death penalty, and therefore may be murdered with impunity, even children.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Honest Ali.
prebangian says
Exactly PRCS,
That’s why the Gospel tells us that we are born into flesh but must be born again in the Spirit.
PRCS says
Or not.
gravenimage says
Whatever you think of Christian belief, PRCS, it is clear that its implications are quite different from those of Islam.
CogitoErgoSum says
This is one of the few times I find myself in agreement with Muhammad. People are born into this world as slaves of Allah (actually Satan). But as Christ said, we must then be born again through water and the spirit (sometimes spirit alone is acceptable) to become the adopted children of the God whose kingdom is not of this world. Those who don’t believe in the dual nature of man will deny it is so but I believe that man consists of both flesh and a spirit. However, I also believe that people should be able to choose to believe whatever they wish without being ridiculed or humiliated or persecuted because of it or having to submit to other beliefs being forced upon them.
PRCS says
The subject of this thread is the notion that adults believe children become members of their respective religion at birth.
James Lincoln says
So I guess these islamic preachers believe that no one ever *converts* to islam – they *revert* to islam…
PRCS says
That’s the belief.
gravenimage says
That’s why Muslims use that phrasing.
pfwag says
Yeh, every child is born stupid. The ones that say that way become Muslims.
Esperanza says
Hehe, children are baptized to prevent them from being Moors
gravenimage says
People who are baptized can still convert to Islam. The intelligent and decent ones don’t, though…
Patrick White says
I think what he meant to say was: “Every child is in danger of being raped by a Muslim.”
It’s the example set by their ‘prophet’.
Infidel says
Malaysia supposedly doesn’t want Zakir Naik, but won’t extradite him to India, where he is wanted for criminal charges. In which case, why don’t they just work out a deal w/ Pakistan and send him there?
His reasoning is also the rationale for muslims in the Indian sub-continent to feel free to kidnap underaged girls, marry them and try to convert them. At least some states in India are starting to pass laws against that
gravenimage says
Infidel, Muslims also kidnap Infidel girls in Egypt and other places, and on the same basis–that, and that kidnapping and rape are sacralized forms of Jihad terror.
katherine says
Nonsense – Malaysia`s leaders generally LOVE Zakir Naik and the most outstanding ones like Mahathir rant ecstatically about murdering millions of Europeans with justification.
Zakir is regarded as a national Islamic Treasure because he bluntly tells the Koranic truth and refuses to be politically correct. The ideological equivalent of ISIS.
Yes they love him for that.
gravenimage says
Malaysia has said they want him to leave, but no one will take him–this sounds a bit implausible, especially given that he is Indian and India is trying to get him extradicted.
https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2020/aug/07/malaysia-wants-to-send-zakir-naik-to-some-other-country-not-many-willing-to-accept-says-ex-pm-maha-2180514.html
Infidel says
The thing that strikes me is – why wouldn’t Pakistan take him? Yeah, I know they don’t like taking in Indian muslims, since they consider them important in their ‘Ghazwa e Hind’ project of reconquering India for islam. But he’d be very useful for them as a propagandist if they did choose to shelter him
Too bad he hasn’t contracted the Chinavirus
jca reid. says
Not this old chestnut, again! Faker Naik at it again. No evidence whatsoever of Islam being, or having been, a “World Religion”. Simply spouting off the delusions of a 7th. Century psycho pervert.
tim gallagher says
MY immediate response is, go and get fucked, you Muslim jerk. I definitely have never been a Muslim and, more importantly, I never will be. The arrogance of these brain dead fuckwits astounds me. You just couldn’t make up the nonsense that they believe and that they constantly spout. Most people that I know feel exactly the same way that I feel. Not in a million years would they ever join islam , which is such a barbaric, backward, primitive load of rubbish, and they certainly never have been Muslims except in the minds of demented, evil loons like the Muslim clown in this report. I suppose this idiotic notion comes from the Muslim supremacist idea that they own the whole world and all the people in it. What a bunch of idiots.
Keith O says
Initially I found him amusing, till he spouted the utter BS about Indigenous Australians being mudslimes. Knowing how our people lived for the last 50,000 years makes what he said insulting in the worst way imaginable. DICKHED!!!
Thinker1 says
The terrible two’s.
Richard I Ellis says
LIKE HELL THEY ARE! BORN AS HUMANS AND INTO THE BIBLE’S VENTURE, NOT MUHAMMAD STYLE OF KILLERS!
PRCS says
So, the children of Hindu parents are born “INTO THE BIBLE’S VENTURE”?
Eleanor says
No, of course not, just the same as Buddhists are not born into the Bible’s venture! However, we all know what Richard means — he just forgot to mention peaceful religions other than Christians. Not worth a battle on here for a small slip up.
PRCS says
No, we don’t all know that.
NEVER a MUSLI\M says
I think not
gravenimage says
Popular Muslim preacher Zakir Naik: ‘Every child is born a Muslim’
………………..
Yes–this is orthodox Islam.
And it is not just bizarre–that Muslims believe this even of people who have never even heard of Islam–it has more disturbing ramifications.
While Christians believe that there are people who have not heard the ‘good news’ about Jesus, Muslims believe that every human was born a full Muslim–and that non-Muslims deliberately and perversely *rejected* Islam. In fact, the precise translation of “Kafir” is “rejecter of the truth”.
“Rejection of God and Truth [kafir]”
http://consultquran.com/category/24/rejection-of-god-and-truth-kafir
It is obvious how damning this is–even little children are not deemed innocent, because they have supposedly rejected “Allah and his Prophet”–this is the main reason that Infidels are considered fair game for Muslims to murder.
PRCS says
And ‘Christian’ children are born with ‘original sin’.
CogitoErgoSum says
I would say children are born with the stain of original sin on their souls. I think of it as being born of parents who renounced their citizenship and left their native land. The children born to such parents are not automatically citizens of the land the parents left.
somehistory says
Every child born…no matter to whom or where…is imperfect, just as his/her parents are imperfect. That is why a person gets sick, gets old, body breaks down, and then dies. Imperfection.
If you dent a cake pan, every cake baked will have the mark of the pan where it is dented. Every child is replicating the imperfection of the parents.
What Adam passed to all of us is imperfection. We no longer reflect the “perfect image” of God in which Adam was created.
gravenimage says
PRCS, this concept–whatever you might think of it–just means that all people, including Christians, have moral flaws. It does *not* mean that Christians have the right to go out and murder people–it has nothing to do with this Islamic concept.
PRCS says
Children are not morally flawed at birth.
Whatever Christianity and Islam teach them after that is beyond the scope of the article.
Naik says all children are born Muslim.
Richard I Ellis (above) says they’re born into Christianity.
gravenimage says
No, children are not automatically Christian. I don’t know of any Christian denomination that teaches this.
PRCS says
It’s not the denomination, GI; rather what the flock believes and says.
What Ellis and other have asserted is not an uncommon belief.
gravenimage says
PRCS, all this means is that all people are capable of making mistakes. I know I am certainly not omnicompetent. (I wouldn’t make so many typos if I were…).
Parwill says
So it is Allah who gives kids to the Christians and Jews. Therefore the only hope Muslims can have of converting these kids to Islam is to marry them at say, for example 6 years old and doing adult things to them. This is how Allah works.
Joeyn says
Every child is born with the the false self (original sin) as well as the true self (his/her true identity which is also the divine nature in him/her). The purpose of every good religion is to help one to awaken to one’s true self. Islam seems to be the only religion that based on its teachings clearly helps one persist and prevail in one’s false self. It is one religion that everyone should avoid at all costs if one wants to lead a fulfilling life in this world.
PRCS says
Every child…..
Those are not facts. They are what you BELIEVE.
Could you be wrong?
Billy Chickens says
PRCS – “Every child born a Muslim” is what YOU BELIEVE. Could you be wrong?
gravenimage says
Billy, I don’t think PRCS believes this–he is an Anti-Jihadist. He is just trying to imply that Christianity is as bad as Islam–which it certainly is not.
Giacomo Latta says
Hmm. So I became a muslim apostate at a young age without knowing it. Or did this Naik become an idiot at a young age?
James Lincoln says
So according to muslim preacher Zakir Naik: ‘Every child is born a Muslim’
If one believes this, it would mean that all adult non-muslims are apostates, deserving of the death penalty according to sharia law…
gravenimage says
Exactly, James.
Del says
No child is born full of hatred and violence. Every baby is born believing in God and the weak ones become twisted and corrupt by the evil influence of Islam.
PRCS says
Every baby is born believing in God.
Hindu babies?
Sikh babies?
Etc.
OLD GUY says
See I knew that Obama and Biden were muslin, that explains a lot about their open border policy. Then again I could say that every child is born a Christian and some make a huge mistake and become islamic.
The truth is no one knows and you have to be and idiot to say all babies are born muslim. I know Muhammad said it and that as with everything else he said must be taken as Gods word if you are a muslim. Thats why islamic male followers have no problem with child sex, abusing women, and killing non-muslims, Muhammad says they should. Muhammad also says islam will dominate the world, maybe we should pay attention to that threat President Biden.
Pal says
Also Sahih Bukhari 2 / 23 / 467:
The Prophet said, “Every child is born with a true faith of Islam (i.e. to worship none but Allah Alone) and his parents convert him to Judaism or Christianity or Magianism, as an animal delivers a perfect baby animal. Do you find it mutilated?”
https://www.sahih-bukhari.com/Pages/Bukhari_2_23.php
gravenimage says
Yes–this is orthodox Islam.
Chris says
Religious proclamations like this are always contentious. I wish some of the more fundamentalist views are just kept within religious internal discussions.