Monday, September 25, 2017

From the People of Shirk who Die before Da'wah...

On the authority of the sons of Shaykh Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdul-Wahhab and Hamd Ibn Nasir, they said in “Durar” (10/136-138) when they were asked, “no doubt the believer in Allah and His Messenger when he says or does what would be Kuffr in ignorance, while in that condition Takfeer is withheld on him until the Hujjah Risaliyyah (the proof from Islam, the Message, texts) has been established on him, so if the one in such condition is killed before this Da’wah becomes apparent, what is to be done?”
 
Then they answered saying, “If he was doing Kuffr and Shirk due to his ignorance or due to the absence of anyone who would inform him, then we do not judge him with Kuffr until the Hujjah has been established upon him. But we do not give him the hukm of that of a Muslim. Rather we say, this action of his is what permits wealth and blood, though we do not judge upon this specific individual due to the absence of the Hujjah being established upon him. As well it is not said that if he is not a Kaafir then he is a Muslim, rather we say ‘his action is the action of the Kuffaar and ruling upon this individual specifically rests upon the Hujjah Risaliyyah reaching him.’ Verily the people of knowledge mentioned that the people of Fatrah (people who lived between two Messengers to whom the Message of Allah did not reach) are to be tested on Yawmul Qiyamah in that state, and they (ahlu ‘ilm) did not place the hukm (ruling) on those people under Kuffaar nor that of the righteous.” [Ad Durar: 10/137]

Shaykh ‘Abdul-‘Azīz, the Judge of Ad Dar’iyyah, in “Arrasail wal Masail An Najdiyyah” (5/576) when asked regarding a believer in Allah and His Messenger, if he says or does a thing that is considered Kuffr out of ignorance is Takfeer withheld from him until the Hujjah is established upon him?
 
So he responded, “If he was doing Kuffr and Shirk due to his ignorance or due to the absence of anyone who would inform him, then we do not judge him with Kuffr until the Hujjah has been established upon him. But we do not give him the hukm of that of a Muslim. Rather we say, this action of his is what permits wealth and blood, though we do not judge upon this specific individual due to the absence of the Hujjah being established upon him. Likewise it is not said that if he is not a Kaafir then he is a Muslim, rather we say ‘his action is the action of the Kuffaar and ruling upon this individual specifically rests upon the Hujjah Risaliyyah reaching him.’ Verily the people of knowledge mentioned that the people of Fatrah (people who lived between two Messengers to whom the Message of Allah did not reach) they are to be tested on Yawmul Qiyamah in that state, and they (ahlu ‘ilm) did not place the hukm (ruling) on those people under the Kuffaar nor that of the righteous.”

Shaykh Hussayn and ‘Abdullah, the sons of Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdul-Wahhab said in “ad-Durar as-Saniyyah” (10/142) in regards of the one who dies before this Da’wah and was unaware of Islam (true Tawheed) and these are the actions which people today do while the Hujjah has not been established, what is the hukm concerning him?
 
So they both answered, “Verily whoever from the people of Shirk dies before this Da’wah reaches him, then the judgement upon him when he is known for doing ash Shirk and dies on that as his Deen, then from the apparent he has died on Kuffr. And no Dua’a, sacrifice or charity is done on his behalf. As for his true reality then it is left to Allah. Then if the Hujjah was indeed established on him during his life and was stubborn, then he is a Kaafir in thahir (apparent) and batin (inner). And if the Hujjah was not established on him then his case is left to Allah.”

[Quoted by ash-Shaykh ‘Ali al-Khudayr (fakk Allahu asrahu) in his book ‘Mutamimah’]

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