Is it established that Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab held that some mushrikin (those who associate partners with Allah) are excused due to ignorance, and what is the criterion for being excused by ignorance?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: Is it established that Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (may Allah have mercy on him) said that some mushrikin (those who associate partners with Allah) are excused due to ignorance, and what is the criterion for being excused by ignorance?
Answer:
I have not seen this, but I see now that there is a lot of talk about ignorance, meaning, meaning, as if I have not seen a Messenger, nor has the Qur'an or the Sunnah or anything else descended. All of this is being ignored now. This ignorance has ended, praise be to Allah, with the sending of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) and the descent of the Qur'an and the authentic hadiths from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). So until when will the ignorance last?
If a person lives in the remote wilderness where the Qur'an does not reach him, nor does anything reach him, and he hears nothing, and he is upon his original fitrah (innate natural disposition), and the call of the Messenger has not reached him, nor anything else, then this is the one who is excused by ignorance. But the majority of humanity and the earth today are filled with hearing the Qur'an on the radio and elsewhere, so there is no longer an excuse of ignorance, there is no longer an excuse of ignorance. And yet, those who say they are excused by ignorance memorize the Qur'an, most of them, and with the ten recitations, they may memorize the Qur'an, and despite this, they call upon the dead and seek aid from the dead. Where is the ignorance?
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: Is it established that Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (may Allah have mercy on him) said that some mushrikin (those who associate partners with Allah) are excused due to ignorance, and what is the criterion for being excused by ignorance?
Answer:
I have not seen this, but I see now that there is a lot of talk about ignorance, meaning, meaning, as if I have not seen a Messenger, nor has the Qur'an or the Sunnah or anything else descended. All of this is being ignored now. This ignorance has ended, praise be to Allah, with the sending of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) and the descent of the Qur'an and the authentic hadiths from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). So until when will the ignorance last?
If a person lives in the remote wilderness where the Qur'an does not reach him, nor does anything reach him, and he hears nothing, and he is upon his original fitrah (innate natural disposition), and the call of the Messenger has not reached him, nor anything else, then this is the one who is excused by ignorance. But the majority of humanity and the earth today are filled with hearing the Qur'an on the radio and elsewhere, so there is no longer an excuse of ignorance, there is no longer an excuse of ignorance. And yet, those who say they are excused by ignorance memorize the Qur'an, most of them, and with the ten recitations, they may memorize the Qur'an, and despite this, they call upon the dead and seek aid from the dead. Where is the ignorance?
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [2214- 4717] هل ثبت أن ابن عبد الوهاب يرى أن بعض المشركين يعذرون بالجهل وما ضابط العذر بالجهل؟ — youtube.com
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