When is a person excused by ignorance?

Question:
Yes, yes, yes. May Allah reward you. This is another questioner, Abu Maryam from the Noble Makkah, who says: What is the ruling on one who believes that other than Allah harms and benefits, and who circumambulates graves and calls upon other than Allah, and this is due to his ignorance of these matters?

Answer:
This is shirk (associating partners with Allah), major shirk, and may Allah protect us from it. The ignorance of one who lives among the Muslims, reads the Qur'an, or hears the Qur'an, hears the lessons and lectures, the argument has been established against him; he is not excused by ignorance. Rather, it is the one who is cut off in the land, who has not heard anything in the remote parts of the land, who is excused by ignorance until the argument is established against him. Likewise, he is excused by ignorance in hidden matters, but not in apparent matters. For example, shirk; this is not excused by ignorance because it is an apparent matter, and the Qur'an has forbidden it in several places and has issued warnings against it. Yes.