Question: Would it be possible for you, may Allah preserve you, to
mention for us a short summary regarding the issue of “excuse of
ignorance” (in major shirk)?
Answer: Excuse of ignorance is differed upon into three sayings:
١. Those who give excuse of ignorance completely (in all cases).
٢. Those who don’t excuse the people with ignorance in Tawheed, completely, regardless if it was regarding the asma (applying the name of mushrik upon him) in this world or the hukm in the Afterlife, so they consider him to be in the hellfire eternally, even if the Risalah (Message) didn’t reach him, and they used the first covenant (fitrah) as proof.
٣. And this is the correct view, that there are some ignorance which can be excused, and other which isn’t:
A) So it would be excused in the Masa’il al-Khafiyyah (Hidden/Unclear Matters), such as Qadar, Imaan, Attributes and in the likes of the apparent Ahkam al-‘Amaliyyah (Shari’ah regulations to do with actions) which is other than Tawheed, like Salaah, Zakaah, the prohibition of alchohol & other than that.
Answer: Excuse of ignorance is differed upon into three sayings:
١. Those who give excuse of ignorance completely (in all cases).
٢. Those who don’t excuse the people with ignorance in Tawheed, completely, regardless if it was regarding the asma (applying the name of mushrik upon him) in this world or the hukm in the Afterlife, so they consider him to be in the hellfire eternally, even if the Risalah (Message) didn’t reach him, and they used the first covenant (fitrah) as proof.
٣. And this is the correct view, that there are some ignorance which can be excused, and other which isn’t:
A) So it would be excused in the Masa’il al-Khafiyyah (Hidden/Unclear Matters), such as Qadar, Imaan, Attributes and in the likes of the apparent Ahkam al-‘Amaliyyah (Shari’ah regulations to do with actions) which is other than Tawheed, like Salaah, Zakaah, the prohibition of alchohol & other than that.
B) It would not be excused in Tawheed al-‘Ibadaah because this is
Aslu-Deen and the Deen of all the Messengers, like du’aa, slaughtering, a
vow & other than that. This jahil is also upon two categories:
١. The jahil who is not excused in this world and the Hereafter, meaning that he will eternally remain in the Hellfire, we seek refuge from Allāh from it. And he is the one who the Hujjah has been established on by having the Risalah reach him, no matter if he searched for it but didn’t understand it, or he opposed it and didn’t search for it.
٢. The jahil who’s excused in the Hereafter, not in this world: And he is the one who the Hujjah hasn’t been established on, like the one who grew up in a desert far away or was in a very tall mountain, or from the Ahlul Fatrah and other than them, so this person is dealt with as a mushrik in this world, but as for the Hereafter, the matter is left to Allāh, and the most correct of what has been mentioned regarding him is that he will be tested and Allāh knows best.
١. The jahil who is not excused in this world and the Hereafter, meaning that he will eternally remain in the Hellfire, we seek refuge from Allāh from it. And he is the one who the Hujjah has been established on by having the Risalah reach him, no matter if he searched for it but didn’t understand it, or he opposed it and didn’t search for it.
٢. The jahil who’s excused in the Hereafter, not in this world: And he is the one who the Hujjah hasn’t been established on, like the one who grew up in a desert far away or was in a very tall mountain, or from the Ahlul Fatrah and other than them, so this person is dealt with as a mushrik in this world, but as for the Hereafter, the matter is left to Allāh, and the most correct of what has been mentioned regarding him is that he will be tested and Allāh knows best.
[Fatawa Hariyyah - Answered by ash-Shaykh Nasir al-Fahd (fakk Allahu asrah)]
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